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...name: alpha (2-piperidyl) benzhydrol hydrochloride-was tested for 18 months by two local doctors under the supervision of Psychiatrist Howard Fabing. Human guinea pigs: 320 patients who were unhappy in love, discouraged with their jobs, generally worried. Nontoxic, non-habit-forming, Meratran provided a quick pickup and morale boost without the jangling, jittery aftereffects of Benzedrine (TIME, June 14), and without inducing hallucinations or nightmares. Though wary of all such "anti-blues" drugs, independent physicians here tentatively described Meratran as "interesting" and "promising...
...ticket prices: $1.25 to $3.00). While most other summer-music producers ? largely civic ?have to beg for contributions to keep going, Irv (35) and Izzy (39) stand a good chance of making it pay. For them summer music may make a respectable contribution to their total income, boost record sales. Their estimated 1954 Super-gross...
...third to 317 million bushels, and this year they are estimated at no more than 215 million, or only 30% of the total (Canada's share: 40%). To enable its exporters to compete in world markets (instead of just unloading on the government) the U.S. has had to boost its subsidy to as high as 50? a bushel, to make up the difference between the domestic and world price...
Through the years, some Overseers reports have been both valuable and influential: the visiting committee's efforts on behalf of the Business School gave that institution a boost when it needed one. And when Eliot abolished compulsory attendance at morning prayers in 1886, he admitted to considering seriously the attitude of the Overseers...
Piggybackers argue that everyone-shippers, truckers and railroaders-should benefit. In many cases, piggybacking should not take business away from the truckers. The railroads will simply charge them a fee for handling the long-haul shipments that wear out truckers' equipment and boost their costs. For their part, the railroads will get some much-needed extra revenue. Says Erie's Traffic Vice President Harry W. Von Willer: "Trucks take only the kind of business they want. They skim off the cream. We can't live on milk. We want cream." The New York Central alone figures that...