Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic energy exhibit. Other American attention-getters: the "Circarama," a 15-minute movie of America the Beautiful projected on a 360° screen; the IBM 305 Ramac, which produces answers in ten languages in ten seconds; a set of U.S. voting machines. The pavilion's transplanted "corner drug store" and restaurant sold hot dogs, hamburgers, milk shakes at a brisk rate, chiefly to Americans...
MOVE INTO TEXTILES is being considered by fast-growing Chas. Pfizer drug house (1957 sales: $207 million). Pfizer has option to buy Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp.'s division making Vicara, a cashmere-like synthetic that has been a flop so far because it weakens when washed. Before deciding whether to buy, Pfizer will conduct major research to see if Vicara can be improved...
Though U.S. drug addiction is on the rise, Dr. Erwin Nelson, former medical chief of the Food and Drug Administration, reported one encouraging note last week. Addiction among teen-agers is falling, Dr. Nelson told the New Mexico Pharmaceutical Association. Of the total 43,963 U.S. addicts on record from 1953 to 1957, the number of those under 21 fell from 1,500 in 1953 to 900 in 1955, and below 800 last year...
...Trouble for iproniazid, the remarkable new anti-depression drug introduced last year (TIME, Dec. 16), was sparked last week by the death of a San Francisco woman whose physician prescribed it. A coroner's jury ruled that her death (of hepatitis) was directly due to the drug, which is trade-named Marsilid by its maker, Hoffman-La Roche Inc. of Nutley. N.J. In January and February the drug house cut the recommended daily dosage for moderately depressed patients from 150 milligrams to a maximum of 50. It tried to notify most practicing U.S. physicians, but the information never reached...
...with FHA loan requests up to 75,000 last month-the highest level since May 1950-few builders were crying the blues. Neither were food stores, drug and cigarette makers, many of whom reported record first-quarter profits (see Earnings). The U.S. consumer's personal income had dropped hardly at all. The annual rate of $341.4 billion in March was down only $300 million from February and was $1.2 billion higher than last year. But consumers were cautious. Retail sales of $15.4 billion for the month of March were down, though only 1% v. a 4% drop the month...