Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medical Care. About 100,000 treatments have been given Saipan's civilians by Army and Navy doctors and their assistants since D-plus-five. The "Midtown Pharmacy" still treats about 1,200 cases each day. Chief ailment: malnutrition, for which vitamin B1 injections are given in severe cases. Other maladies : diarrhea, worms, beriberi...
...antitrust division of the Justice Department has eyed the $200,000,000-a-year vitamin business coldly for months. Trustbuster Wendell Berge has focused his eyes on the scholarly, highly respectable Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Through a handful of patents, the foundation exercises a schoolmaster's knuckle-whacking control over the industrial giants who turn out some $60,000,000 in synthetic vitamin D (the "sunshine vitamin") and related products every year...
...court, antitrust intervened in a patent-infringement suit brought by the foundation. Last week antitrust charged that the foundation has conspired with 16 companies, including Standard Brands Inc., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Pet Milk Co., Parke, Davis & Co., to suppress competition in the manufacture & sale of vitamin D. They also, said antitrust, limited the potency of vitamin D used in the widely advertised "enriched" bread, milk and other foods, thus preventing such foods from competing with the regular vitamin-D products...
Further, charged antitrust, the foundation has maintained "unreasonable" prices so that those most in need of vitamin D have been unable to afford it. Berge's example: the cost of making vitamin D that sells for from $3.35 to $10.80 is 15?. Berge asked the court to invalidate the foundation's vitamin patents, and open the richly profitable field to all comers, thus bring prices tumbling down...
...skin is so sensitive to light that even when blinded it infallibly finds a dark place to hide in. It can get along on so little oxygen that it lives for hours after its breathing tubes have been sealed; it is the only known creature that can live without vitamin A or C or nitrogen. Its voracity is the most catholic in the insect world-it eats paint, bedbugs, hair, grease, wallpaper, gold lettering on books, its own cast-off skin...