Word: rx
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Roseberg tried to sell the invention to several major corporations, including Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., he met only indifference. Reluctantly, he turned again to Zeiger for financial help. They formed "RX COUNT Corp." in Hawthorne, Calif., produced 75 pill counters, and leased them to Los Angeles County drugstores for two years of testing and refining. Roseberg and Zeiger concluded that leasing would be more profitable for them and more convenient for many druggists, who are reluctant to buy new equipment outright...
Last winter, armed with testimonials from druggists, the two men contracted with McKesson & Robbins Drug Co. to market the pill counter nationally. Now 1,900 salesmen are distributing leases at $17.50 a month. RX COUNT has already signed 1,724 leases and its revenues are running at an annual rate of almost $362,000-just for openers. Negotiations to produce and lease the counter are going on in Canada, Europe, South Africa and Australia. Rose-berg, now 56, is talking about a model that will also package the pills, type the labels and present a bill to the customer...
...Rx: Take a Bath. The Sorbonne became a haven for many who were wounded during the riots and who feared police prosecution if they were taken to the hospitals. An emergency medical service was set up with its own ambulance brigade, composed of every imaginable sort of vehicle. It had its own nurses and doctors, many drawn from the medical school. In spite of unfounded rumors concerning venereal diseases and even plague, a professor at the School of Medicine who called himself Dr. Kahn (nearly everyone used pseudonyms for fear of police reprisals) had only one prescription to give...
...Rx Golf and Travel (196,000), a trade bimonthly, and a string of oil wells...
...Rx: Geritol. Whatever the reasons, Johnson's operational withdrawal eliminated any last-minute presidential pyrotechnics in a campaign that was remarkably short of fireworks. Nixon, who stumped for nearly 100 Republicans in 32 states, drummed away at the President's Viet Nam policy and his "rubber stamp" Congress, but neither pitch particularly roused his audiences. Vice President Hubert Humphrey encountered such apathy everywhere he went that he finally blurted to a listless Manhattan audience: "Get with it, will you? I'm going to get you some Geritol." At a traditional "bean feed" rally in St. Paul...