Word: extract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other five cases the mold extract, dropped into the eyes, cleared up severe eye infections...
...great drawback is the fact that penicillin is difficult and expensive to extract. Until it can be synthesized, or more cheaply prepared, it will probably be reserved only for desperate cases-for heavily infected wounds, severe staphylococcic diseases, possibly gas gangrene. It cannot yet be obtained...
Method he hit on was to grind green coffee beans, extract the soluble alkaloids (notably caffeine) and part of the oil, cook the remainder under pressure in the presence of a catalyst. The result is cafelite, a dark brown powder which can be colored like other plastics, can be used to make anything from ashtrays to building materials. Out of a Brazilian bag of coffee (132 lb.) the Polin process makes 70 lb. of cafelite, 1 lb. of caffeine, plus smaller amounts of other byproducts, including vitamins...
German nutritionists have found, says Dr. Gerson, that doses of artificial vitamins and minerals may act against each other. Example: large doses of vitamin A may drain the body's reserves of C, produce scurvy. The German soldiers get their vitamins in butter, rye bread, yeast extract, soybeans, vegetables, milk...
...same as the geological formations of some of South Africa's famed mines) covers 44 acres, extends at least 200 feet underground. Chief difficulty in operating it: the cost, at-U.S. wage rates, of washing the 14,500,000 lb. of clay and rock it takes to extract a single pound of diamonds. Since the machine tool industry uses diamonds (world's hardest mineral) for cutting, this difficulty would be unimportant if control of the world's diamond supply, now tightly held by a British monopoly, should ever pass into Nazi hands...