Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While he was gone, embarrassing questions began to crop up. Was it essential for General Omar Bradley to go pheasant hunting in a special Air Force plane? Was it vital to national defense for Navy Secretary Francis Matthews to fly his whole family to a military ceremony in Honolulu? Did Vice President Alben Barkley have to use a B-17 to take a three-piece band to a party for his St. Louis friend, Mrs. Carleton Hadley...
...Price, Gentlemen." With the pressure on, there was talk of working Newcombe every third day. In next week's vital three-game series with the Cardinals, he is scheduled for two of them. Says he: "I'll throw as much as they want...
...researchers noted that certain infections (e.g., the minute protozoa which cause sleeping sickness) thrive in a well-fed patient, but languish where some supposedly vital food factor is missing. Rats whose diet was lacking in the vitamin B complex survived sleeping sickness better than better-fed rodents. Ill-fed rats infested with an intestinal parasite were not helped by a pantothenic acid (vitamin) preparation in their diet; instead, the parasites flourished on it. So did the parasites in chickens infected with bird malaria...
...Business is now taxed to the limit. More levies would kill off the vital incentive of profit...
...span of life in the U.S. is still lengthening. Based on mortality figures for 1947 (the latest year for which statistics have been compiled), the average life expectancy of a U.S. child at birth is 66.8 years, the National Office of Vital Statistics said last week. This is almost two years greater than the average for 1939-41. White women can expect to live 70.6 years; white men, 65.2; non-white women, 61.9; non-white...