Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lockheed Aircraft research workers have made a new sulfa drug, desoxyephe-dronium sulfathiazole (a combination of an ephedrine compound which shrinks swollen membranes, and bacteria-fighting sulfathiazole), have treated more than 1,000 Lockheed colds with it. The drug was used as a nose-&-throat spray and as a nasal pack on cotton. Result: "Rather prompt relief." The spray cannot be bought without a prescription...
Before the delegates stood the man called Drug Tito. He heard them acclaim him Marshal of Yugoslavia, the first in history. Now he could drop his incognito, step forth officially as Josip Broz, Croatian metalworker, Communist labor leader and fighter for Loyalist Spain against Francisco Franco. The new Marshal's first act: substitution of the conventional army salute for the Partisans' greeting-the clenched fist...
When Sterling Drug bought Watkins in 1934, Mr. Brush moved to Affiliated Products (Louis Philippe cosmetics). He did such a bang-up job that American Home, looking around for new blood, decided on him. The quickest way to get him was to buy his company...
...next eight years, American Home picked up 34 drug and food companies for $7,642,556 in hard cash, 307,528 shares of stock (worth $18 million). It ended with a list of products that sounds like an inventory of a housewife's cupboards: Clapp's Baby Foods, Anacin, Black Flag insecticides, Old English Floor Wax, 3-inONE Oil; BiSoDol, Kolynos Tooth paste, G. Washington Coffee. The com pany also spread into sulfa drugs, serums, vaccines and, recently, into large-scale production of penicillin...
...American Home is about finished buying. It has all the drug com panies it can handle without competing with itself. With a few more food com panies, Alvin Brush can achieve his post war ambition to supply the U.S. citizen's household wants from the cradle to the grave...