Word: vitaminous
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Shark fishing became big business in 1938 when "Tano" Guaragnella, a fin-sharp San Francisco fish broker, sent a soup-fin shark liver to a chemist, learned that the livers of Galeorhinus zyopterus are the richest known source of Vitamin...
...growls "Angel, wanna make somethin' of it?" Raul speaks perfect American, smokes big cigars and worries about his diminutive wife's health. To keep her strength up, he feeds her a pint of oatmeal every morning and insists that she take One-A-Day vitamin pills twice...
...cane sugar the bee gets from nectar is metabolized into honey sugars (glucose, levulose, dextrose). Honey normally has no vitamin C, and not much of any other vitamin...
...nectar, but a Soviet bee student, E. Arefyeff of the Maikop Agricultural Research Station, thought of trying them on other foods. He fed them nectar, laced with essences of fruits, fruit-tree leaves, aromatic grasses like mint. The honeyed results were pleasing. Fruit-fed bees produced honey rich in vitamin C; mint-fed bees gave honey that had pleas ant fragrance as well as taste...
...technical decision still went to OPA Boss Chester W. Bowles. His OPA had fought the vitamin barons last November, threatening them with an order that would cut retail vitamin prices 15%. Producers argued that there was no inflationary element in their prices; OPA's order was illegal; it was profit control rather than price control. OPA never formally issued the order, but the industry nevertheless sought a court injunction against the possibility. When the injunction was denied, the industry filed an appeal. The problem was still in the courts when the voluntary price reductions began last week...