Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal court recently killed a goose that had laid a huge golden egg for the University of Wisconsin. The Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco outlawed patents (for enriching food with vitamin D) which in 15 years had netted the University's research outfit $7,500,000. But Wisconsin still had this golden egg last week-in the form of investments-as well as ideas that may lead to a new era in university research...
Wisconsin's big money-maker is a skinny, self-effacing biochemist named Harry Steenbock. Some 18 years ago he discovered that food could be enriched with vitamin D (especially useful in preventing rickets in children) by being treated with ultraviolet rays...
When a small Los Angeles firm, Vitamin Technologists, Inc., began to irradiate in defiance of Wisconsin's patents, the Foundation sued. The Circuit Court pointed out that the patents were so sweeping that a farmer who let his alfalfa lie under the sun's ultraviolet rays would be an "infringer." The Court ruled that Dr. Steenbock's finding, though it put the world greatly in his debt, was a "discovery," not a patentable invention. The Foundation will appeal to the Supreme Court...
...strains of cabbage that have up to twice as much vitamin C as the old varieties have been developed at the Department of Agriculture's regional laboratory in Charleston. S.C., but seed is not likely to be available to gardeners for several years...
Home drying of food costs almost a third less than canning. According to University of Tennessee's Chemist G. A. Shuey, properly dried foods keep most of their food elements and a good part of the vitamins, except vitamin...