Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walkout immediately blocked some 5,000 long-distance trucks which daily rumble into the metropolitan area with much of the city's food, manufacturing and mercantile supplies. Strike leaders promised to keep food and essential drug supplies moving, but in many cases drivers refused to haul food to chain stores, most of whose shelves were almost empty...
...wonder drug, streptomycin, was at last ready for general distribution among 1,600 U.S. hospitals. Last week the Civilian Production Administration, the drug's custodian, announced that current production (about 140,000 grams a month) would meet all demand-except for treatment of tuberculosis...
...penicillin a drug or an argument? Doctors have been awed and appalled by a gusher of argumentative books and reports claiming that 1) penicillin will cure almost anything; 2) its victories have been only temporary because the bugs are fighting back. Out this week came still another. This one was authoritative: it was written by penicillin's discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, and a group of British colleagues (Penicillin: Its Practical Application; the Blakiston Co.; $7). The book wraps up in one well-documented package just about everything worth knowing about the wonder drug...
Overall conclusions: 1) penicillin is no cureall, but neither is it a flash in the pan; 2) penicillin's occasional failures have been due mainly to improper use.* The Fleming book is also a detailed guide to practitioners on how & when to use the drug. Items...
...family-owned company had just been bought (for "several million") by William R. Warner & Co., Inc., a giant combine of a dozen-odd drug and cosmetic firms (including Richard Hudnut, operator of the DuBarry Success Schools). The deal left Nassaur with full operating control of Courtley, gave him access to Warner's 61 foreign outlets...