Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently, such news, taken straight, would have given the stock market a case of jitters; only two weeks before, word of lackluster early-May sales had helped drive the Dow-Jones industrial average to a nine-month low of 864.14. Last week, Wall Street took the nicely sweetened pill with barely a tremor. And the Dow-Jones average closed the week at 897.04, up 20.15, which represented the biggest week-long rise since last July...
...last year it sagged 7%, and the total of 3,800,000 was the smallest in 15 years. Understandably, Mrs. Gerber and her husband's industry are beginning to fret. The newest item on the fret list of the baby-food business is the growing popularity of "the pill." The baby-food people still just seem to hope that it will somehow go away. "Birth control," says a Gerber executive primly, "is a necessity in some countries...
Even if the pill prevails, baby-food processors can prosper for a while on sheer weight of numbers, higher per-baby consumption and a parallel trend to convenience food. Pet Milk's "Infant Nurse" and Mead Johnson's "Nursette," both prebottled formulas in disposable containers, have been successful with younger mothers. Swift sells strained meats for six-week-olds, keeps them on junior food until four years. Gerber's five original varieties have grown to 130, including cherry vanilla pudding and Dutch apple dessert; the company estimates that today's baby eats 15 jars a week...
...century ago. Today the posted speed limit on the Kansas Turnpike is 80 m.p.h. "Comet," "Tempest" and "Fury" are synonyms for "car." Legislators in Washington are worried about too much speed and too little safety, and the U.S. Automobile is praised more faintly than the Teen-Ager and the Pill. All of which is likely to make this year's 500, coming when it does, the most controversial ever...
...read with interest "The Morning-After Pill" [May 6], about the new drug ORF-3858. The similar drug diethylstilbestrol, which Yale researchers are finding equally effective, has been used by veterinarians for years to treat mismating in animals. One of the most noted side effects is the increase in libido. This sounds like the beginning of quite a vicious cycle. Anyone for tennis...