Medicine: Benny is My Co-Pilot

When six Food and Drug Administration inspectors were assigned to root out dangerous and illegal sales of amphetamine stay-awake drugs—better known as "bennies." "pep pills" or "co-pilots"—to over-the-road truck drivers, they had to work as truckers themselves. The FDA men usually operate without disguise, but the FBI taught them tricks of undercover work, and trucking-company representatives gave them tips on trucking. Willing companies hired them after first putting them through school. Then the FDA men went on the road, taking day or night jobs in the East, Midwest and South, bunking in truck...

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