Word: miltowns
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills. "What'll I do with these?" she asked. Replied the actor, with a careless toss of the head: "Tear 'em up and order some more Miltown...
...Miltown, one of the two trade names for meprobamate, the latest popular tranquilizing drug, has become the fastest-selling pacifier for the frustrated and frenetic. The backlog of unfilled orders is at once the pride and despair of Wallace Laboratories in New Brunswick, N.J., makers of Miltown, and Philadelphia...
Wyeth, Inc., which calls the same drug Equanil. Hollywood is, naturally, the hottest market. A drugstore at Sunset and Gower splashed huge red letters across its window when a shipment arrived: "Yes, we have Miltown!" Most of the time, this and other drugstores are not so fortunate. Schwab's, Los Angeles' best known, has dispensed 250,000 pills (both brands) from four stores in four months, and has turned away more orders than it has filled...