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Medical Care. About 100,000 treatments have been given Saipan's civilians by Army and Navy doctors and their assistants since D-plus-five. The "Midtown Pharmacy" still treats about 1,200 cases each day. Chief ailment: malnutrition, for which vitamin B1 injections are given in severe cases. Other maladies : diarrhea, worms, beriberi...
...antitrust division of the Justice Department has eyed the $200,000,000-a-year vitamin business coldly for months. Trustbuster Wendell Berge has focused his eyes on the scholarly, highly respectable Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Through a handful of patents, the foundation exercises a schoolmaster's knuckle-whacking control over the industrial giants who turn out some $60,000,000 in synthetic vitamin D (the "sunshine vitamin") and related products every year...
...skin is so sensitive to light that even when blinded it infallibly finds a dark place to hide in. It can get along on so little oxygen that it lives for hours after its breathing tubes have been sealed; it is the only known creature that can live without vitamin A or C or nitrogen. Its voracity is the most catholic in the insect world-it eats paint, bedbugs, hair, grease, wallpaper, gold lettering on books, its own cast-off skin...
...Last week, amid considerable commercial mystery, President Luckman sold the company for "upwards of $10 million." The buyer was Lever Brothers Co. of Mass., subsidiary of the Netherlands Lever Brothers & Unilever, N.V., which is now controlled by the British company of the same name. They make Vimms (a vitamin product); Lifebuoy Shaving Cream; Lux, Swan, Fairy and Lifebuoy soaps; Rinso, Gold Dust and Silver Dust; Spry and Coro shortenings...
...Walton wants a pair of OD pants; and I want a pair of OD pants, one of my heavy shirts, some saddlesoap, a bottle of Vitamin C and a bottle of whiskey. We have plenty of brandy and Calvados...