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...Invitation. General Mills got into war work half by choice, half by invitation. The first war orders came naturally-dried eggs for Lend-Lease, precooked breakfast food and vitamin preparations for the Army, oat flour for paratroopers' basic rations. Then General Mills thought of its small, efficient manufacturing division (food-packaging machinery, milling equipment), decided to get a few machine-made orders. The first job was making plungers for ammunition hoists. Then General Mills got a prism order, ran it off in record time by perfecting a device to grind 54 prisms simultaneously. With this greyhound start, the company...
...pleasing vitamin in music is consonance, as in such agreeable harmonies as the standard Do Mi Sol Do. When composers wish to ennoble, invigorate or inspire their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
...patterns. Those who flunk color tests and go to doctors get various kinds of handling: some doctors give no treatment at all ("color blindness is not curable"); others try everything but the kitchen sink. At the Optometric Extension Foundation, Duncan, Okla., 25% of the young colorblind men who took vitamin A and practiced looking at lights through red and green lenses got good enough to pass Air Corps tests in three weeks...
Physiotherapist Cadan belongs to the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink school of thought. In the current Medical Record he reports that he used electrical stimulation of eye muscles (two volts, one milliampere to each eye, 15 minutes three times a week), 75,000 units of vitamin A daily (to stimulate formation of visual purple-a pigment in the retina), daily injections of one-half cc. of vitamin B complex (for nerve vitality), five drops of iodine by mouth daily (to stimulate body metabolism), red & green glasses, training with colored cards...
Unlike many other drugs, there is no shortage of vitamin C. The U.S. will soon produce it at the rate of 100 tons a year...