Word: beef
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...containing vitamins A and B, they became fat, sleek and healthy, but practically all of them were sterile. When fresh green lettuce leaves were added to their menu, the sterile rats produced litters. Drs. Evans and Bishop found this X-substance also in the whole-wheat grain, egg yolk, beef liver and some other foods, but not in milk, the otherwise perfect food. The absence of Vitamin X affects the reproductive powers of the male, as well as the female rat. This vitamin can be extracted from the wheat embryo with ethyl alcohol and ether and a daily dose...
...Public Health Service and Bureau of Fisheries investigators, seeking to extract insulin from the pancreatic glands of sharks and other fish, have so far been unsuccessful. The chief source of supply is still beef pancreas...
...only meted out to those who assault their fellow immigrants (a Negro was the only one so treated for several weeks); that the menu on the day the two women were at Ellis Island consisted of: prunes, oatmeal with milk, bread, butter and coffee (for breakfast); bean soup, potted beef with vegetables and rice pudding (for dinner); macaroni with tomato sauce, blackberry jelly with tea, coffee or milk (for supper); in addition graham crackers and milk three times a day; that the amount of food served was unlimited...
Federal publicity on the Beef Trust and La Follette diatribes against the Standard Oil Company have been silenced for the moment by the clamor about sugar. Wicked men, it would seem, are holding up the price of the consumer's dearest luxury, it is merely necessary to find the wicked men. But the search goes on from producer to jobber and from broker to consumer, each solemnly shaking his head and pointing to his neighbor. The last man in line with some consternation raises his eyes in significant reverence to an economic law. New committees set out on the quest...
...friendly relations reestablished between Frank Vanderlip and rare beef...