In easygoing Lafayette, La. (pop. 19,210), 425 factory workers bustled each working day last week turning out more than 100,000 bottles of a murky brown liquid that tastes something like bilge water, and smells worse. The patent medicine called Hadacol has been such a resounding success in 14 Southern states that its backers expect this year to sell $20,000,000 worth (in 8-oz. bottles at $1.25, or in the 24-oz. family "jug" at $3.50).
Very Sassy. The man responsible for the murky brown medicine is Louisiana's plump State Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, 56, who had to rustle up a new business after he...
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