Word: drugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a sharp fall in stockmarket prices last week (see p. 50). But it scarcely affected the securities of those eight great U. S. manufacturing and retail drug concerns who have listed their stocks with the New York Stock and Curb exchange.* This despite the fact that their business this spring has not been so good as usual due: 1) to the absence of an influenza epidemic last winter; 2) to the smaller purchasing power of drugstore customers affected by current unemployment and business depression. This second cause is a shock to both manufacturing druggists and retailers. They...
...drugstore customers realize that their purchases of 15?, 25? and 50? packets of proprietary medicines sustain a half-billion-dollar industry. The stock value of just one of the eight big ones, Drug, Inc., last week was a quarter-billion...
Boston's Louis Kroh Liggett, 55, organized Drug, Inc., two years ago. It is a holding company. Its original purchases were Sterling Products, West Virginia patent medicine makers, and Mr. Liggett's United Drug Co. With the United Drug purchase it acquired 664 Liggett drugstores in the U. S., 38 in Canada and contracts to supply 10,000 Rexall drugstores in the U. S. Besides those U. S. establishments, the United Drug purchase gave Drug, Inc. control of the 860 Boot's Drug Stores in Great Britain...
Abraham Flexner, onetime secretary of the General Education Board, told his listeners, many of whom were college professors, that there was not an educational institution in the country deserving the name of a University. Said he: "They resemble the modern drug store in which the pharmacy has been pushed in the corner by soda fountains and sandwich counters. Academies and learned societies are becoming more numerous in the U. S., but they lack the amenities of the common rooms of the English Universities, or the German beer garden. It has been suggested that the best way to advance learning...
...Anglo-Indian select committee on dangerous drugs unanimously recommended, last week, that the cultivation of cocoa plants for the manufacture of cocaine be authorized in India, that the sale of this drug should be a state monopoly like opium...