Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pounds are sustained by the appetite of a longshoreman. She eats five or six meals a day, takes three vitamin pills, and is a chain drinker of chocolate milk shakes, which are delivered almost hourly to her dressing room. "Fragility, hah!" snorts Trainer Vincenzo Celli, "she has a Rolls-Royce powerhouse constitution...
...tons of lettuce culls discarded from the 14,000 carloads of lettuce to be shipped from Salinas this season. After being dried and concentrated, each ton of culls will give 80 Ib. of a protein-rich meal suitable for cattle feed, also for the extraction of vitamin A. The amount of vitamin available from U.S. waste lettuce is close to the entire output of the U.S. fisheries industry, now handicapped...
...Pyridoxin and pantothenic acid are the remaining known constituents of the former B-complex. They are newly developed, often omitted from multiple-vitamin preparations. Pantothenic acid is popular as a possible preventive of grey hair...
...Tocopherol (vitamin E) and methyl naphthoquinone (equivalent of vitamin K) complete the list of the vitamins that are available from chemical manufacture. They are still little used. The former is essential for reproduction in rats, so that it has become known as the sex vitamin, but doctors are still uncertain whether it has any such value in human beings. The latter is unique: it is not vitamin K but is equally effective in decreasing the clotting time of blood...
...know-how, lack of labor, and a virus carried from plant to plant by an aphid left U.S. growers four or five years away from capturing a $20,000,000-a-year business. Imports of bulbs dropped off even before Pearl Harbor. Reason: the Japanese were eating the vitamin-rich bulbs, as they had done centuries before the West turned their flowers into symbols of the resurrection of the Prince of Peace...