Word: vitamined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Griffiths does not know the reason for the difference between wild and tame rats, but he is inclined to think that vitamin and mineral deficiencies in the diet of laboratory rats may have something to do with it. He has also found some evidence that wild rats, like other city dwellers, develop relative immunity to noise...
Religion has been added to the U.S. Army's K rations. Around a million packages of vitamin-rich food (32 oz., 3,726 calories) for men going into battle, the Army last week wrapped leaflets entitled Hymns From Home...
...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...
Doctors' conclusions: few vitamins are lost in sweat, despite its variety. The only vitamin lost in any quantity is nicotinic acid, the antipellagra factor...