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...head of the Corps is husky, golfing (middle 70s) Eugene Reybold (pronounced Rye-Bold), who was brought to Washington a year ago by Chief of Staff Marshall to head G-4 (supply) section of the General Staff.* Although he has been in the Army since 1908, Gene Reybold, unlike many an engineer officer, has never smelled powder, but like most he has had wide building experience. Long a worker on U.S. rivers, and conqueror of the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937, he was Division Engineer at Little Rock, with a long record of crack administration behind him, when he went...
...Ergot, a fungus which grows in rye kernels, contains a score of medicinal factors. It is used mostly to start contractions of the uterus at childbirth. The fungus is difficult to separate from rye husks, is expensive to produce. Most of it came from Europe. About 20,000 Ib. were produced in the Middle West last year...
...Lunch and dinner: potatoes prepared in many ways, Kommissbrot (bread made from coarse whole rye, rich in vitamin B), all sorts of cheeses, milk, sour milk or milk powder (it stays fresh for eight months), rice, beans, peas, oats and barley, dried vegetables, dried and preserved fruits. "Fresh vegetables are given in great quantities," and all cooking water is used again for soups and sauces to save vitamins and minerals...
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...
...Saturday afternoon traffic Whizzed by, their cultured thumbs snared vehicles ranging from a hen crate carrier to a 1941 Buick convertible headed for Rye Beach with two Wellesley girls. One hour and a half later the entire playing squad was leisurely going through their warmup on the Exeter diamond...