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...What concerns me primarily is not the patent and deliberate effort of a State Department subordinate to undercut the Secretary of State and sabotage his policy. What is of far greater concern is the apparent assumption on the part of those who put out the story that the weight of the mail rather than the weight of the evidence should be the controlling factor in determining American foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Leaders' Responsibility | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...funneling cash from these sales into profitable projects. Dart established Riker Laboratories to manufacture ethical drugs; it now brings 15% of Rexall's profits. He invested heavily in the manufacturing division, now another 15% earner that turns out almost 4,000 different kinds of Rexall cosmetics, vitamins and patent medicines, including 77 billion tablets a year at its St. Louis plant alone. He buttressed the company's Rexall Division, which distributes 5,000 Rexall trademarked products, earns half of Rexall's profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Wonder Boy Makes Good | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Cent per Dose. In addition, FTC singled out Pfizer for a more serious charge, saying that it had "made false, misleading and incorrect" statements when it obtained the basic tetracycline patent in 1955. Tetracycline already had been on the market for a year from various mak ers, and the patented method of manufacture was not truly an invention because it was "obvious to anyone having ordinary skill" in the antibiotics art. If sustained by the Federal Trade Commission after hearings start Oct. 1, this charge could lead to an FTC request to relax the Pfizer patent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Dissent on Wonder Drugs | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...Comic Housemaid, the heroine habitually complains of a racking headache in midscene, gulps down an Arakawa Drug Co. remedy and announces: "Now I'm ready for anything." One private eye uses a drugstore as rendezvous-a drugstore whose shelves are conspicuously filled with the sponsor's patent medicines. In another samurai episode, the hero vanquished a batch of evildoers, then warily approached a wayside shrine whence came a mysterious breeze; he jerked the shrine door open to discover an air-conditioning unit and a pretty girl, who intoned: "It's Nippon Electric's latest model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Land of the Rising Plug | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...pair of mounted Life Guards in scarlet tunic, white knee breeches and shining armor: "If a wasp crawled up the nostril of one of the guardsmen he would not permit himself to move his hand." Pointing to Trooper John Tedbury, Guide Reeves said that his ebony boots are patent leather and his breastplate stainless steel and untarnishable, so that the guards never have to do any polishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: En Garde! | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

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