Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CORPORATE PROFITS rose 1% in 1957 over 1956, says Manhattan's First National City Bank in survey of 2,474 key companies that account for about one-third of total business earnings. Biggest gainers: tobacco, shoe, drug, steel, and auto companies. Losers: textile, clothing, tire, paper, oil, building-material firms...
...rapid strides in his father's footsteps when, at 32, he fell ill with thrombophlebitis-inflammation of leg veins, with formation of clots that could be fatal if they reached the lungs. That was 20 years ago. Schulte's physician, Dr. Irving Wright, casting around for a drug to prevent clot formation (none had yet been proved effective in man), appealed to Nobel Prizewinner Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He wanted some of the heparin that University of Toronto laboratories had just begun to extract from beef lungs and liver. Dr. Best sent all he could...
Best Testimonial. Physicians who had no objection to using a drug made from rotted clover that killed cattle were more wary of one touted as a rat poison. But warfarin, believes Chemist Link, is the best anticoagulant now available: it can be used in smaller doses than dicoumarin; it can be given by mouth, by injection or rectally. It works fairly rapidly, and an overdose can be promptly canceled with a form of vitamin K. Best testimonial to its safety: Chemist Link disclosed that warfarin is the anticoagulant (unnamed by Press Secretary James Hagerty) that President Eisenhower has been taking...
...DRUG ADDICTION. Iproniazid (TIME, Dec. 16) has already proved valuable in some cases of drug addiction, by relieving the depression which led to use of narcotics; it may help similarly in cases of alcoholism associated with depression...
EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION : If there is anything to telepathy (which Dr. Kline did not concede), "the possibilities of [developing] a drug which will bring about 'heightened awareness' should not be overlooked...