Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four North Koreans, it turned out, had carried bundles of civilian clothes (including a coat bearing the label of a Seoul tailor), faked South Korean identity cards, rations for 15 days and $4,000 in U.S. money. Obviously, they had intended to infiltrate South Korea, but why had they jeopardized their mission by the ambush of the U.S. Jeep? Likeliest explanation: they thought they had been spotted by a U.S. patrol and had therefore opened fire...
...Should the patient know what drug he is taking? Should the name of the drug be written on the label where any one can see it?" The A.M. A. Journal asked these questions last week in an editorial, and answered yes - with a few special exceptions...
...concluded that it was time to purge the nation's medicine chests of prescription drugs lurking dangerously in bottles unlabeled except for the patient's name and a sequential number slapped on by the druggist. A few physicians got the habit of scrawling on their prescriptions "label as such" or the Latin suo nomine (by its own name). The labeling practice is fairly popular near big medical centers but much less common elsewhere, so probably 90% or more of all U.S. prescriptions are still unlabeled...
...A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs has not committed itself on generic v. trade names but has just adopted a resolution favoring the labeling of prescriptions as a general practice. The A.M.A. believes that labeling is not always advisable with opiates and barbiturates, because of the danger of misuse by addicts or for suicide. There may also be exceptions for anti-cancer drugs, if the patient does not know what disease he has. But in general, the A.M.A. concludes: "The name of the drug and its strength on the label may save precious minutes and spell the difference between life...
...whole family in middlebrow fashions at lowbrow prices. The Brenninkmeyer family itself believes in tight budgets and tight lips, regarding secrecy as its greatest strength and publicity as comfort to the competition. But competitors know that "C. & A." has annual sales of some $700 million, its own private-label factories, countless real estate holdings-and one burning ambition: to break into the U.S. retail market in grand style...