Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other possible causes-widely used food dyes and additives. Three food dyes have already been generally banned in the West: "Butter yellow" (used for butter and olive oil), "light green SF" (for green peas), and thiourea (used to prevent oranges from spoiling). Last year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration discovered that three of 18 approved synthetic dyes had caused cancer in animals; 31,000 lbs. of the dangerous dyes had already been consumed by the U.S. public. Warned Britain's Eric Boyland: "All synthetic food dyes are suspect, and should be investigated before they are used...
...tonic, and Harry Hoxsey's special treatment, have brought him wealth -and fame of a sort. He has been denounced as a charlatan by the A.M.A.; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regards his tonic as worthless as a cancer cure. Yet some 40 new patients a day keep coming to the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas, hoping for the miracle cure-at $300 to $400 a treatment ("charity" patients pay little or nothing). Hoxsey friends are now trying to extend his domain beyond Texas. For weeks an attempt to establish a new Hoxsey clinic in Pennsylvania has been...
...pediatricians, Alfred J. Vignec and Rose Ellis. The much-publicized infant deaths due to boric acid, they added, have largely resulted from the misuse of solutions with a high boric acid content, often swallowed by newborn infants. Their recommendation: undiluted, powdered boric acid should not be dispensed freely over drug counters...
Desires (Meteor-Fama; Grand Prize Films) is the first German film in several years that is worth the expense of its subtitles. It starts as a brisk thriller about a drug-addicted ballerina who pilfers her poison from an apothecary's safe. But soon the picture is twisting through some gothic involutions of motive, and it finishes in one of those duels of abstractions the Germans love and almost manage to make believable...
...Shore Drive apartment. Instead, he went to a dingy hotel, and then moved into a tiny, raffish apartment in Chicago's bohemia. A few days later, on June 19, his body was found there abed, with blood-flecked lips and, on his arms. nine neat punctures like a drug-addict's needle marks. Four were fresh...