Word: valo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violent rampages. Then S.K.F. chemists found a better decongestant, propylhexedrine (not an amphetamine or a stimulant), to put in inhalers, and changed the name to Benze-drex. The problem died down until five years ago, when St. Louis' Pfeiffer Co. began marketing a 200-mg. inhaler called Valo, once again containing amphetamine. It sold well, and the old problem of misuse soon recurred...
Hypos & Photos. The current Missouri flurry got its impetus two football seasons ago, when eight Kansas City high-school students piled into two jalopies and roared off to see a game in Oklahoma City. Local teen-agers showed them how to extract the amphetamine from a Valo inhaler and inject it with a hypodermic needle. (Oldfashioned ways of getting the kick by chewing the cartridge or drinking beer in which it had been swished around were no longer popular, because Pfeiffer had added a bitter, nauseating chemical.) The venturesome eight had a ball -and spread the craze back home...
Prescription & Records. With Valo sales running 1,000 a week above normal, thanks to the kick trade, the city council has already banned their sale without prescription in Kansas City. When the ban was proved unenforceable, Missouri's Thomas C. Hennings Jr. introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate to put sales of amphetamine inhalers on prescription only,* require druggists to keep records of sales. Now the Food and Drug Administration has decided to issue an order, under its present legal powers, to accomplish the same result. As for the Pfeiffer Co., it has resolved to drop amphetamine...
...start against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Gangling (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) Max Von McDaniel, duly warmed up, had little cause to get nervous until the sixth inning, when the bases suddenly got full of scampering Dodgers and none were out. But the youngster forced Old Pro Elmer Valo, 36, to bounce back to the box, calmly threw home to start a run-nipping double play, and then got Outfielder Gino Cimoli to ground out on an inside fast ball to end the inning. When he finished his two-hit victory last week (final score: 2-0), the Oklahoma...
...support of the unions . . . A teachers' union was formed, and before long almost every teacher in the country, in order to hold his job, had to teach the Communist doctrines . . . The Communists had political control of Guatemala by the time [former President Juan José] Arévalo's term expired [in 1951]. When their hand-picked candidate, Jacobo Arbenz, took office, they finally dared to come out into the open...