Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great chemists' drive to synthesize cortisone, some researchers start at the beginning with simple ingredients (TIME, May 7), others are trying to make the magic drug out of complex vegetable substances, which contain the building blocks of cortisone...
...such sweets as canned peaches or candy. To the experienced trader, these innocent purchases meant only one thing: a peyote party was in the making. Soon, at some secret hideaway far out in the desert, men, women & children would be enjoying the transitory delights of a powerful drug. After the party they would have a dismal hangover. The sweets were to help straighten them...
...Francisco's Weinstein's department store started cutting prices, and the rival Emporium followed suit, declared: "We didn't become the biggest store in San Francisco by selling at higher prices." In Omaha, the Smith Drug chain signed up for the duration of the price war; prices of fair-traded items began to tumble in Memphis and other cities...
...York City's Superintendent of Schools William Jansen had some news that was apparently intended to be reassuring. After a poll of his junior and senior high-school principals, he reported: there are only 154 known cases of drug addiction in the city's schools (including 22 girls), and 35 suspected cases. Rate of addiction: one in 2,000 students...
...Faced with a difficult case, too many physicians think it advisable to try a series of drugs, in the hope that a happy accident will point out the one, good, effective drug after a series of failures...