Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Telephones were always scarce in Tokyo (about 250,000 before the war). The value of a set was determined, to some extent, by the exchange number. Numbers in ascending order might cost several hundred dollars, because they were lucky. Numbers containing the figure four had been a drug on the market: the pronunciation of the word for four (shi) was identical with the word for death...
Small, dark Lewis Judah Ruskin was a drugstore stockboy in Chicago when his father gave him a cryptic warning: "You'll never be successful; ambitious men never are." Lewis shrugged, and set out to become the "General Motors of the drug and cosmetic industries...
With $5,000 he had saved, he formed the North American Pharmacal Co. (drug products) in Chicago. Three years later he prospected a new field: the small-town drugstore. He dazzled the outlanders of Sterling, Ill. with a garish, big-city drugstore, complete with huge drug and cosmetic departments, a well-stocked food section. It was such a hit that he moved into five other towns, now has a chain of 54 stores in five states (Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota...
When such simple remedies as aspirin fail, the standard treatment has been shots of ergotamine tartrate (Gynergen). But Gynergen, derived from ergot, a drug used to stimulate uterine contractions in childbirth, is almost a disease in itself. It slows the pulse, raises blood pressure, occasionally causes gangrene, may cause vomiting, pains in the legs, uterine cramps and suppression of menses...
...Grateful for their new bonanza, drug companies last week gave Penicillin Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming a ?20,000 research fund to be used by his St. Mary's Hospital laboratory as he sees...