Search Details

Word: sharff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Pearl River, N.Y., plant where Lederle develops the ultrasecret cultures for its new drugs. The detectives observed that Fox regularly invented excuses to remain in the lab after working hours and that he made frequent visits to Biorganic Laboratories, an East Paterson, N.J., company run by Chemist Nathan Sharff. All this struck Cyanamid as highly suspicious, but the detectives found no concrete evidence that Fox was filching drug formulas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Drugs on the Market | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...Buyer. Early this year, Cyanamid finally brought suit against Fox and Sharff for $5,000,000 apiece, charging that the two chemists had delivered to at least six Italian companies formulas and cultures for three Cyanamid-developed antibiotics and one antiarthritic steroid. Cyanamid estimates that the Italian firms-all of which hotly echo Fox and Sharff in denying any formula pirating-last year sold $25 million worth of drugs based on Cyanamid processes. Ironically, two major customers for the controversial drugs were the bargain-minded U.S. Defense Department and Veterans Administration, which together during the past two years bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Drugs on the Market | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

| 1 |