Benzedrine was supposed to be the pep in the German Army's pep pills (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942),* and is indubitably the drug that causes periodic tantrums among college deans when cramming students take overdoses. Benzedrine, a chemical relative of adrenalin, also may bring eyes back to normal after the use of oculists' drops, relieves hangovers, clears the brain of mental fog.
The Air Surgeon's office last week called benzedrine the best drug "for temporarily postponing sleep when desire for sleep endangers the security of a mission." Times to use benzedrine: when a pilot cannot...
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