Word: livers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Babies, fighter pilots, nursing mothers and hell-bending West Coast fishermen were all interested, or should have been, in the fact that there was a West Coast boom in shark-liver...
...Shark-liver oil is the richest available source of concentrated vitamin A. * Nursing mothers need vitamin A to produce milk; babies and adolescents should have it to promote growth; pilots and plane spotters should have it to help prevent night blindness. Extra doses of vitamin A supplement the natural supplies in liver, leafy vegetables, yellow foods like butter, apricots and carrots...
Before the war, the U.S. imported much of its medical supply of vitamin A from Norway-72,000,000 lb. of cod-liver oil annually. But after the German invasion, drug companies had to scurry around for a new source. Result was a shark boom on the West Coast...
...hospital room in Iowa City, death came last week to the most famed artist in the U.S. For two months he had fought a losing battle against cancer of the liver. At his bedside his old friend Thomas Benton had helped him toast the Midwest school of U.S. realism which they and John Steuart Curry had founded and brought to national fame. The trio would henceforth be a duet. Grant Wood was dead...
Died. Grant Wood, 50, famed painter of the U.S. Midwestern scene; of cancer of the liver; in Iowa City...