Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cosmetic dealers, bound by no food & drug act, were selling boot polish as mascara, commercial lacquer as nail varnish, powdered paint as rouge...
Before the war, the U.S. imported much of its medical supply of vitamin A from Norway-72,000,000 lb. of cod-liver oil annually. But after the German invasion, drug companies had to scurry around for a new source. Result was a shark boom on the West Coast...
...Most likely second victim: drug manufacturer Schering Corp. (sulfa drugs, hormones, antishock vaccines), Swiss-controlled since Hermann Goring ordered its German parent to sell its U.S. stock interest five years ago. Month ago, the Treasury stripped Schering of eight top executives; last week Schering got a new Treasury-approved vice president and director: Gerald E. Donovan of Schroder Rockefeller...
...sifting of earth presaging a cave-in), the ballplayer's "floater" (for a slow ball), the prostitute's "pivot" (for solicitation from a window). Practically all the unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they still say "whitewater bucko"), and the shoptalk of the stock exchange and of the turf, which significantly share such terms as "sleeper," "tip sheet" and "past performance...
...College men should begin right now to stop drinking and free themselves from this drug," said Mrs. Doris Putnam of the Women's Christian Temperance Union yesterday. "They are our future draftees and we are fighting now to teach the boys in camps the dangers of being drunk while they hold military secrets...