Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excellence pennant, but U.S. farmers last week had good reason to be proud as roosters: the Department of Agriculture announced that on fewer acres than they plowed in 1918 they will raise 40% more food this year for the United Nations-the biggest, most diversified, most healthful, most vitamin-rich crop ever harvested anywhere by any people...
Answer? In Berkeley, Calif., a scientist found that pigs who lacked enough vitamin B took to doing the goosestep...
Sprue, a wasting sickness (cause unknown) that chiefly attacks white people in towns & cities. It produces constipation, melancholy, low blood pressure, muscle cramps, diminution in the size of the liver. Constantly increasing in the temperate zones of Latin America, sprue seems to be related to vitamin deficiency, can be checked by an increase of fruits and vegetables in the diet...
...Very hot? Boiling hot? Take a pill. If the pill is a vitamin C tablet, it will stave off heat prostration and muscle cramps, said Dr. John Henry Foulger of Du Pont...
Several summers ago, Dr. Foulger learned that Bantu miners in South Africa sweat out large quantities of vitamin C (found in oranges and lemons), frequently develop muscle weakness, even though they eat plenty of fresh fruits & vegetables. With this clue in mind, Du Pont doctors gave their workers two vitamin C tablets (ascorbic acid) a day, along with common salt tablets, to replenish the salt lost in perspiration. Result: cases of heat exhaustion, formerly four or five a day, disappeared, even when the temperature soared to over 100 degrees. The pills, said Dr. Foulger, "should prove useful in steel mills...