Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johns Hopkins: the Eli Lilly & Co. award of $1,000, given each year for distinguished research in biochemistry. Dr. Ball purified xanthine oxidase, an enzyme necessary for oxidation of food in the body; found it consisted of a protein fraction and a non-protein fraction containing phosphorus, nitrogen, Vitamin...
After four years of analysis and experiment they found that grain grass contains all the vitamins except D, has 28 times more vitamins per pound than dried fruits or vegetables. Its riches: 23 times more Vitamin A than carrots; nine times more Vitamin BI than leafy green vegetables; 22 times more Vitamin B2 than lettuce; 14 times more Vitamin C than tomatoes and citrus fruits...
...American Chemical Society meeting in Cincinnati last week: "The use of only twelve pounds of powdered grass a year . . . will supply the necessary factors for a liberal diet to all U. S. families at a price they can afford for the first time in history." Once a vitamin is isolated or synthesized, researchers almost invariably find in it some long-awaited healing powers...
...Gelatin Products spread into an adjoining store, then into an old factory, finally got its new plant this year, complete with bridge tables and lounging chairs in the men's washrooms. Today it supplies 177 U. S. pharmaceutical houses (including such big fellows as Parke, Davis and International Vitamin Corp.), puts up 142 capsuled formulas, is the largest buyer of vitamin compounds in the world. Gelatin Products buys some 60% of its own pharmaceuticals direct, makes a profit on them as well as on its capsules; the rest of the "fill" is supplied by customers for gelatin-packaging...
...Three years ago the first of Feb. I fell on the sidewalk in St. Petersburg and fractured my left hip and have been a bed and wheelchair invalid. I am 76 years, I got complications and ended with arthrtis, I take shots of vitamin B and sufer for which I pay my Dr. $3.00 I am doing without it so I can send it to the Met. Opera. If this works out all right and I dont have a return of that awful pain I may send $3 later...