Word: vitaminous
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...Warren administration put through the "taste test" citrus program which insured the vitamin-hungry citizens of America oranges and grapefruit ripe and redolent with succulent, salubrious, satisfying juice. Governor McCarty continued this program. The Warren administration sponsored legislation outlawing highway cows and hogs [and] slightly reduced the cruel carnage of colliding cars . . . Illegal gambling had been openly operated in Florida for more than 50 years before 1949. The Warren administration suppressed all open, illegal gambling . . . and markedly reduced sneak gambling . . . TIME turned back to the Ananias tradition by alleging that Florida had a "Fuller Warren type of government-by-lobby...
...disease, but only as a symptom of some other disease. As a result, a whole class of so-called "primary anemias" is being dropped from medical thinking, e.g., pernicious anemia is now known to be a metabolic upset in which the system fails to make proper use of vitamin B12. Once the cause of this or practically any other anemia is tracked down, the underlying complaint can be treated and the symptom usually disappears...
...author of 275 research papers, Fieser made discoveries in the chemistry of certain types of cancer. He synthesized vitamin K-1 and contributed a link in one of the methods of synthesizing cortisone...
Seventy-eight years old and still ministering to the natives of French Equatorial Africa, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary-philosopher-musician, was looking to the future. In a letter of thanks (for a supply of pills) to H. B. Burns, president of the U.S. Vitamin Corp., Schweitzer wrote: "I should like to accomplish some long-undertaken and far-progressed works ... in the realm of philosophy, history, religion and music ... At the same time, I have to keep myself in as good shape as possible for as long a time as possible for my hospital's sake ... It needs...
...Lincoln (Neb.) Sunday Journal-Star a cow did not give milk; "the vitamin-laden liquid" came from a "bovine milk factory...