Word: vitaminized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sylvania, set up Boston's Microwave Associates; he now is worth at least a million. Charles Stein, 37, sensed a rich future in convenience foods. He began by buying oranges at retail and squeezing them into juice for hospitals and hotels; the business grew so vitamin-rich that National Dairy bought it from him for 17,000 shares of stock (now worth $1,530,000), and Stein has gone on to become president of Chicago's Kitchens of Sara...
...Linder emphasize that these sulfonylureas promote the release of insulin-at least in the early stages of treatment-and thus help to make fat. They recommend sulfonylureas for patients whose weight problems are not critical and for the few who are underweight. For the overweight, they prescribe phenformin (U.S. Vitamin Corp.'s DBI), which, they say, helps both to control appetite and to speed the metabolism of blood sugar...
...administering psilocybin to 20 theology students, none from Harvard, in a setting designed to optimize the chances for mystical reactions. The ten students given psilocybin scored significantly higher on Dr. Pahnke's experimental criteria for defining mystical experience than did the ten controls, who were given nicotinic acid, a vitamin which has mild somatic effects. The study was conducted as a "double-blind" experiment, in which neither the subject nor the experimenter knew who was receiving which drug...
...earth. Elkhart also has a special relationship with - and dependence on - the upset stomachs, nervous headaches and run-down feelings of the nation. It is the home of Miles Laboratories, maker of two of the world's most popular household remedies, Alka-Seltzer and One-A-Day Brand vitamin capsules. The histories of Elkhart and Miles are so intertwined that even the town newspaper, the Elkhart Truth, got its start as a medical journal promoting Miles products...
...management, diversify, set up separate divisions, expand overseas, sell stock to the public. Miles took the advice, lured outside talent into its executive ranks, acquired an enzyme and a dermatological firm, built four new foreign plants in four years, brought out several new products, including Chocks, a flavored, chewable vitamin for children. Booz, Allen predicted that Miles could thus double its sales and profits in ten years; Miles has actually done the trick far faster. Its sales have climbed from $51.5 million in 1956 to $118.5 million last year, and profits have nearly tripled...