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...named Gordon L. Harwell. A born pot-watcher, Harwell used to sit up late nights with a pressure cooker and a potful of paddy (rice in the husk) trying to cook up an improvement on conventional milling methods. In orthodox rice milling, machines first remove the husk (containing vitamin Bi), then the germ and several coats of bran (rich in fat, minerals and vitamin B complex), finally give forth a polished white kernel which has lost most of the vitamins and minerals in the original rough grain. (The husks are burned; the bran fed to animals...
...probably read in last week's issue of the Harvard Crimson that the Service News will be a bi-weekly paper beginning in July and you are now urged to get behind this paper and make it something interesting and appealing to all. If you have done any newspaper work or some editing back in high school or college and you are desirous of devoting a little time to writing for the Service News which is now being organized, you are urged to submit your name and address to Lt. O'Neil of the Welfare and Recreation Office. You will...
...Thiamin (formerly vitamin BI), preventive of beriberi, neuritis and loss of appetite, was formerly extracted from rice polishings, once cost $300 a gram. It now costs 37? a gram. Made by the ton, it goes chiefly into enriched white flour, to restore what is lost from the whole wheat in milling...
...prepared to consult with American officials on the political and economic problems of post-war cooperation. Long an internationalist, often touted as the next Prime Minister, Eden was a happy choice to initiate British-American conferences. A second encouraging sign lay in the announced intention of a bi-partisan group of U. S. Senators to offer a Senate resolution tomorrow, calling for American sponsorship of a United Nations' conference on peace planning. But peace planning was not yet merely a matter of marmalade-and-muffins conferences or polite conversations, beyond military victory, there lay still the task of crushing...
...Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., advocate of Senate legislation to create a joint bi-partisan committee to consult with President Roosevelt on prosecution of the war, said he was "perfectly amazed" by Mass' assertions...