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...Sign of the Angel. When Friedrich Jacob Merck took over a pharmacy called the Engelapotheke ("Angel Drugstore") in the Hessian town of Darmstadt 284 years ago, chemistry was just emerging from the shadows of alchemy. In 1827, the Merck firm started manufacturing; in the next 40 years it achieved the first commercial production of morphine, codeine and cocaine. By 1891 the company was selling so many of its products in North America that a son of the house, 24-year-old George Merck, was sent over to take a closer look at the market...
George Merck had already started the family which was to carry on the U.S. business. He settled with his wife (from a Darmstadt family) in Llewellyn Park, N.J., within a stone's throw of Thomas Alva Edison's home and laboratory. In 1894 his first child (of five) and only son, George, was born...
...postwar company, young George Merck moved rapidly up to the presidency (1925). His father, only 59, died a year later, and left his 32-year-old son on his own. And so, after a war-enforced severance from the Darmstadt firm, was the reorganized U.S. company...
Sweet Enough to Eat. In Darmstadt, Germany, Tassilo Horn was sentenced to 27 months in jail after admitting that he bit off the tip of his fiancee's nose-in self-defense, he said...
...performance of U.S. forces. Camouflage was sloppy, communication lines inadequate. Air strikes were too few, and too slow to attack when called. On the Rhein-Main Airfield observers saw cargo planes parked so close that they made inviting targets. Traffic moved placidly in daylight along the Frankfurt-Darmstadt autobahn while, just off the road, supply trucks piled up outside the Sunset...