Word: pharmacist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father & Son. Amm-i-Dent is made by Jersey City's little-known Block Drug Co., founded 42 years ago and still very much bossed by taciturn Pharmacist Alexander Block, now 67. As chairman, Block cracks the whip over a family team-sons Melvin, 41, who is president; Leonard, 37, who handles the money, and daughter Betty's husband Albert Roberts, production boss. Together they boomed Block Drug to a gross of more than $10 million last year on 25 dental products (Poloris dental poultices, Polident denture cleaners...
Give It Back to the Bahstads. Within a few minutes the Amethyst's captain was mortally wounded; the ship's doctor and pharmacist's mate were dead. Another hit demolished a rear turret. The Amethyst ran up two white flags in clear token of surrender. But the shelling continued. The stricken captain ordered Chief Boatswain's Mate David Heath and 59 others, including the wounded, to abandon ship. Some reached the south bank in the Amethyst's whaler, others swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine...
...keep his family going, Hubert Sr. toured the state in a battered Ford, peddling a pig serum he had developed. That left the store without a pharmacist. Hubert Jr. hustled through a six months' course at the Denver School of Pharmacy, moved in behind the prescription counter (where his certificate still hangs...
...Hollywood, M-G-M Director Chester M. Franklin worried about the increasing number of deaths from sleeping tablets. He got an idea, talked it over with Pharmacist Herschel R. Hoskins. Why not put something in the tablets to make them harmless? The result, which Franklin hopes to patent: a sleeping tablet with a built-in dose of that old emetic, ipecac. Taking up to three tablets would cause sleep; more than three, vomiting...
...hero of Great Mischief is Timothy, a pharmacist in Charleston, S.C., who dabbles in witchcraft. When the shapely...