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...famed vitamin-B1 recently made educational news.; Columbia University's Ruth Flinn Harrell experimented with 104 orphanage children, gave some the vitamin for six weeks in the form of thiamine pills, gave the others identical-looking duds. She then had the children tackle arithmetic problems, read proof, learn codes, throw darts. The vitamin-fed orphans did anywhere from 7 to 87% better than the others...
...planes. Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, famed virus investigator of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, told of a new Russian antiserum that has given the best results yet in preventing influenza. Soviet scientists have found ways to extract iodine cheaply from the foul waters of oilfields, sugar from watermelons, vitamin C from pine-tree needles for hungry Leningrad. Important contributions have been made to molecular physics, optics, electronics...
...cost of Christmas greetings and other personal telegrams and cables, juke boxes, vitamin pills, valet services, and $225 for "a spare set of false teeth...
Doctors' conclusions: few vitamins are lost in sweat, despite its variety. The only vitamin lost in any quantity is nicotinic acid, the antipellagra factor...
Peanuts. A highly concentrated food, they excel as a source of the vitamin nicotinic acid. The Department of Agriculture expects peanut cultivation to jump from 5,000,000 to nearly 6,500,000 acres next year...