Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida orangemen pleaded that the stuff had not been proved to be harmful in the minute quantities that might enter an orange eater's system. Overruling the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court held that in the coal-tar provisions of the Food. Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938, "harmless" plainly means absolutely harmless, and that therefore Red 32 "is not to be used at all." Unless Congress amends the law, Florida orangemen are going to have to convince housewives that yellow oranges can be just as good as orange oranges...
...market also proved that the new economy is so big and so diverse that many industries once considered the driving forces can slow down without bringing a traffic jam throughout business. The tobacco companies, the supermarket chains, drug and electronics companies all had record or near-record years despite recession. Investors reacted by driving P. Lorillard up 175% to 89 at the high; General Foods went from 50¼ to 79½ Federated Department Stores from 30⅛ to 54¾ Pfizer, Merck. Schering, and Carter Products posted 68% to 114% gains. One spectacular performer riding a recession boom: Zenith...
There is no Massachusetts law regulating birth control propaganda. There is a law here which makes it illegal for doctors to prescribe medical contraceptives to patients and for anyone to sell or to advertise any drug or device which is intended to be used for contraception...
...traditional holiday treat: an extra year-end dividend. P. Lorillard Co., still riding high on the sales of Kent cigarettes, voted a 95? extra, bringing dividends to $4 v. $1.95 in 1957. Extra dividends and 2-for-1 stock splits were approved by Pet Milk and Kellogg Co.; growing drug sales gave Chas. Pfizer & Co. stockholders a higher dividend, a year-end extra of 60? and a proposed 2½-for-1split...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). First of a two-part study of drug addiction, with secretly taken films of junkies in action...