Word: magnesia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, is a tall (6 ft.), spare (130 lbs.) Bostonian whose modest prayer is that his mind will always be larger than his frame. Fred's father, a Back Bay minister, sent him to Groton (it tasted awful but was good for him, he feels-like milk of magnesia). At Harvard he was on the Lampoon with Cartoonist Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley. Allen landed his first editorial job under Ellery Sedgwick on the Atlantic Monthly, was managing editor of the old Century at only 26. He joined Harper's in 1923, and became its editor...
...citizens are buying more proprietary medicines (drugs sold without prescription) than ever before. Last week drug companies, Government officials and medical men were unable to explain the swelling demand for arnica, eyewash, ipecac and milk of magnesia...
...member, had $17,000,000 profits. United's outlets were the 568 directly owned stores of the Liggett chain, some 10,000 "Rexall" independents. The grandiose Drug, Inc. merger contained many a great manufacturing name -Vick Chemical, Sterling Products (Bayer's Aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria), Life Savers, Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Rubberset brushes, Ipana). But the vital retail end limped almost from the start. Long-term leases put Liggett into bankruptcy in March 1933. Thereupon the big manufacturers, long restless and dissatisfied, un-merged the combine and each went its own way. Enough...
...small quantities the pure metal was used for photographers' flashlights, for fireworks, for star shells, as a scavenger to remove oxygen from other metals while molten, in organic synthesis. In compounds it was used medicinally for milk of magnesia and Epsom salts. But today the fact that magnesium is only two-thirds as heavy as aluminum and less than one-fourth as heavy as steel has brought it into great demand. And from almost everything except green leaves chemists are now extracting the pure metal-some 24,000 tons this year in the U.S., twice last year...
Every U.S. corporation that has commercial ties with Germany studied an announcement by the Department of Justice last week. It was a consent decree signed with No. 1 U.S. drugmaker Sterling Products Inc. (Bayer Aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria, many another branded & unbranded drug...