Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Lieut. Governor Oscar Rennebohm, 57, was sworn in as acting governor. A wealthy, self-made man who built a bankrupt drug store into a prosperous chain, he is a political neophyte. He owns a palatial, 14-room house overlooking Lake Mendota, during the summer spends most of his spare time on his 175-acre dairy farm. He is closely associated with the G.O.P. machine. Said Boss Coleman: "He will serve the state very well...
...children's tonsillitis, many U.S. doctors have been prescribing a new drug called Analbis. The drug, a bismuth compound, has an affinity for lymph and attacks the infection in sore throats. In the last three years doctors have used it for hundreds of thousands of patients...
Last week they abruptly stopped using it. New York City health officers flashed to the nation the tragic news that at least twelve small patients who had been treated with the drug had died...
...into the blood stream, as it often does, it quickly kills. Introduced to. the U.S. in 1931 by a German named Adolf Schickert, the abortion paste ballooned into a $300,000 business, enough to produce some 240,000 abortions (and nobody knows how many deaths) a year, before Food & Drug sent Schickert and four other paste producers to jail. That seemed to have ended the paste racket; reports of deaths due to the paste promptly declined. But last month Food & Drug's watchful inspectors got word. of a new paste menace, worriedly set out to trace the new outbreak...
...world's meanest, lowest rackets. As every druggist knows, the customer who makes this plea is interested in abortion and usually wants a box of pills (often hideously expensive). As every gynecologist knows, pills don't work-and are highly dangerous. Last week the U.S. Food & Drug Administration let it be known that it had launched a determined drive against the thriving abortion-drug trade...