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...have been identified chemically,* but no one knows how many more there may be, or what they do. For the vitamins not yet identified, concentrates are made from a list of weird items reminiscent of a Chinese pharmacopoeia: yeast, wheat germ, defatted milk, rice polishings, grass juice and liver extract...
Extrin is made by Extrin Foods, Inc. of New York City. It is a culture of Lactobacilli* (bulgaricus, acidophilus, moro) and yeast (fragitans), grown in heavy cream and buttermilk, which continue to work in hydrogenated vegetable oils. The culture includes natural annatto extract (for coloring) and salt. Two ounces of Extrin will permeate ten pounds of shortening. Together with two ounces of salt, a quart of water and 3 Ib. of butter, this makes a mixture which can legally be called "butter spread." But even without any butter, Extrinized shortening is almost impossible to tell from the real thing...
With these reduced resources, Stalin tackled his problem, trying to pick abler leaders for his Army, trying to improve its resistance, trying to maintain the morale of his underfed people, trying to extract more aid from his Allies and to get them to open a second front...
...Sept. 7). Last week a new ersatz fuel appeared in the news: liquefied methane gas in pressure tanks. This fuel is obtained by "bottling" natural gas in Italy, Hungary and Denmark, and also as a byproduct in the production of gasoline from coal. Recently Berlin Gasworks Co. prepared to extract methane from the city gas supply, hopes to convert 10% into motor fuel...
Towering, rawboned Major General Mark Wayne Clark, fresh from a submarine, had led his men into the house on a dangerous mission: to extract as much information and win as much support from the French Army as possible. The time was mid-October, three weeks before the U.S. Army planned to invade. All that night and all next day Mark Clark and his men talked and argued with the French officers. All went well until word came that Vichy-controlled police, informed by an Arab servant, were nearing the house...