Word: b6
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every lesson of the war, said Doolittle, had demonstrated the primary importance of air power. "The Navy had the transport to make the invasion of Japan possible; the ground forces had the power to make it successful; and the B6-29s made it unnecessary." Alabama's Senator Hill was so struck by this statement that he had Doolittle repeat...
...complex, for practical purposes, is really a group of eight different chemicals. They are all found in liver and brewer's yeast; some of them also occur in whole grains. Their chemical names: thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), inositol, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, biotin and folic acid (first described last week by Dr. Roger John Williams of Texas). To keep up B requirements, Dr. Tom Spies of Birmingham, Ala. suggested a daily sandwich of yeast and peanut butter on peeled wheat bread (made from grain with only the thin outer tissue removed...