Word: grams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...also used as a preventive of some eye inflammations and fissures of the lips. It is recommended for the enrichment of bread, but the supply is small because of the shortage of equipment in wartime. Within the past year its price has dropped from 75? to 58? a gram...
Chief speaker for the evening will be Lucien Price, editor of the Boston Globe and heart and soul of the editorial page of that paper. This is in accordance with the custom in past years which has brought such famed men to the speakers' table as Raymond Gram Swing, recent recipient of an honorary degree from Harvard...
Exiled Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski made the two men members (in absentia) of his temporary Polish Parliament. Poles in London and the U.S. tried to obtain the pair's release, and arranged for visas to the U.S. Trade-union leaders, Jewish organizations and such U.S. figures as Raymond Gram Swing, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie also urged the Russians to release the two Poles. During his trip to Russia in September 1942, Willkie made his plea direct to Stalin, and four weeks ago cabled another plea to Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Last week Moscow gave its answer...
...long black holder. He loves his job, admits it is a cinch compared to newspaper reporting. He looks forward to the day when he will not have to move off his farm to do his broadcasts. Lacking the informed balance of an Elmer Davis or a Raymond Gram Swing, he has usually avoided international expertizing, has relied on his flair for exploiting home-front issues...