By the end of the 1940’s, World War II had accelerated the production of new antibiotics and prescription drugs for heart and lung diseases, cancer and ulcers. In 1929, prescription drugs accounted for only 32 percent of sold medical drugs, while by 1949 they accounted for 57 percent, and 83 percent in 1969. This period became known as the Therapeutic Revolution [12]. During this time, penicillin became a widely significant medicine in many world cultures and prescription drugs grew rapidly across the United States. The pharmaceutical powerhouse Pfizer ranked as one of America’s leading producers in the industry and became the first company to commercially produce penicillin [12]. Dubbed as “wonder drugs” by the press in 1943, antibiotics proved that bacterial infections could be treated. Penicillin was used to cure syphilis and gonorrhea within days and treated diseases that previously would have been fatal. Other oral antibiotics such as streptomycin and tetracyclines also fanned the nation [14]. Pharmaceutical companies began experimenting with new antibiotics, testing them on random patients without fully understanding the root cause of these ailments. To their amazement, the antibiotics would often work. With the rise in over-the-counter and prescription medicines during this time, the government began regulating drugs more strictly. This made future growth slower, marking the 1960’s as the greatest growth of the pharmaceutical companies in history [12].