Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brain showed none. The famed specialists scratched their heads, brooded, figured, studied smears on slides. Next afternoon, the sick panda, far from the Western Heavens of Szechwan, the nine sacred mountains, the flying horses and the golden monkeys and the citizens with tails, slept quietly under a drug when death, as it must to all animals, came to Pandora...
...cause them to open wide; then blood goes pounding through with extra force. Remedies: 1) a calm life; 2) abstention from annoying foods; 3) aspirin tablets, benzedrine, black coffee or ducking in cold water for mild cases. If a patient can scent it in advance, a dose of the drug gynergen will nip a migraine headache in the bud; once the throbbing begins, this medicine is useless. Gynergen often produces jitters, vomiting, circulatory disturbances in the fingers and toes. Oxygen inhalations "often work miraculously" but must be taken in a doctor's office or hospital for an hour...
McKesson's far-flung subsidiaries were once independent local drug wholesalers. When Coster lured these wholesalers (over 50 of them) into his gigantic merger during 1928-37, he paid them handsomely in McKesson stock, but he made sure he got the best in each area. So firmly were these houses and their salesmen entrenched in the U. S. drug trade that the Coster suicide affected their sales hardly at all. Within nine months after the trustee took over, McKesson sales made a new high...
That done, Trustee Wardall could finalize his reorganization plan. Against total osterized assets of $86,556,000 (1937), the new company's assets are valued at $76,900,000, most of the difference representing Coster's fictitious "crude drug" inventories. After subtracting $15,725,000 of debentures and some $17,400,000 in creditors' claims, preference and common stockholders are left with around $43,800,000 equity. Last year's indicated net profit...
Murray Jr., longtime head of South Carolina's Murray Drug Co., now part of McKesson...