Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason: carotene, a yellow pigment occurring in association with chlorophyll in green plants, is transformed by the body (probably the liver) into vitamin A, which insures sharp human vision at night...
Unlike some vitamins, vitamin A cannot be easily synthesized; and fish livers, from which the vitamin is extracted, have been scarce since war broke out in 1939. So Arizona's three to four thousand acres of carrots (whose harvesting began last fortnight) may be the answer to every aviation command's problem of preventing night blindness in its flyers, who tend to subsist largely on peanuts and candy...
...found a young man wiggling out from a half-opened panel. The bookkeeper, who in all his years around pianofortes had never seen one with a man in it, called the police. They found the young man had 25 feet of quarter-inch rope wound around his leg, carried vitamin tablets in his pockets. He was Hans Strehl...
...vitamin C is given to patients after operation and during convalescence, said Dr. Marshall K. Bartlett of Harvard, wound healing is several times faster, the tensile strength of new skin much greater. According to Drs. John Berry Hartzell and William E. Stone of Detroit's Wayne University, the vitamin draws calcium to injured tissues, helps weave cells tightly together...
...Morgenthau, his many distilling pals. Main points of the report: 1) by re-using containers (now restricted by law) the industry could save 500,000 oaken barrels, 700,000,000 bottles, 20,000,000 paperboard cases annually. 2) With the "thin slop" now thrown away, the industry could feed vitamin B2 to millions of cattle. 3) If needed, the industry could switch 75,000,000 of its 435,000,000-gallon capacity to industrial alcohol...