Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Founding a model School of Hygiene at the Hopkins, in 1916, after three decades of battle. During this time he helped stop a cholera epidemic in Manhattan, modernize Baltimore's sewage system, introduce pasteurized bottled milk, pass a Pure Food & Drug...
Think what that means, you 90 per cent of last year's upperclassmen who are still tied to the apron strings of Mother Fortune! It means that the College Graduate, a hitherto highly exploited commodity that used to drug the market a hundred and fifty thousand strong every year, now has ten per cent more bargaining power! Instead of 150,000 young world-changers, all string-pulling, relative-bothering, contact-casting, desperately making appointments to impress 150 personnel managers, the situation will practically be reversed. And why? Because the national emergency has cut you down to 148,500 world-changers...
Every U.S. corporation that has commercial ties with Germany studied an announcement by the Department of Justice last week. It was a consent decree signed with No. 1 U.S. drugmaker Sterling Products Inc. (Bayer Aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria, many another branded & unbranded drug...
...officers signed the decree. They plead nolo contendere to charges of restricting markets by agreement with I. G. Farbenindustrie, the German Dye Trust. They agreed to pay fines totaling $26,000 and to break all contractual relations with the Farben. They also agreed never again to promise any other drug manufacturer not to compete in foreign markets...
...window. "Pointing to the battlements of the Insane Asylum . . ." he said, "Mother, do you see that large white building on the hill yonder? Try and control your grief, or it will drive you mad, and we may have to send you there." And all the while, "like a drug for her tortured nerves, she indulged in her orgies of buying things . . . things she could never use, for which she could never hope to pay." In four months she bought 300 pairs of gloves. She paid $3,000 for earrings and a pin, $5,000 for a shawl. She once told...