Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cane sugar the bee gets from nectar is metabolized into honey sugars (glucose, levulose, dextrose). Honey normally has no vitamin C, and not much of any other vitamin...
...successively a Washington reporter, Belgian and Russian correspondent, European graduate student, U.S. college professor (Antioch, 1922-23), associate editor of the Baltimore Sun (1923-24). He discovered his talent for the affable packaging of intellectual pabulum with his Story of Mankind (1921). With a roughage of Dutch wit, a vitamin-content of "human-interest background," and doodled-over with his own pen-&-ink sketches, his The Story of the Bible, The Arts, Van Loon's Lives sold 6,000,000 in his lifetime...
Perhaps three out of every four U.S. citizens consume vitamins; in 1943 the vitaminded citizenry swallowed some $200 million worth of the colored pellets. Last week they got good news. Vitamin prices were slashed in some cases...
...technical decision still went to OPA Boss Chester W. Bowles. His OPA had fought the vitamin barons last November, threatening them with an order that would cut retail vitamin prices 15%. Producers argued that there was no inflationary element in their prices; OPA's order was illegal; it was profit control rather than price control. OPA never formally issued the order, but the industry nevertheless sought a court injunction against the possibility. When the injunction was denied, the industry filed an appeal. The problem was still in the courts when the voluntary price reductions began last week...
...patient taking Dicumarol need not fear that he will bleed to death. Dr. Link explained that it can be counteracted by 1) a small transfusion, 2) a large dose (an injection) of vitamin K, the antihemorrhagic vitamin in leafy vegetables...