Word: vitamins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irradiated foods are not at all radioactive, and no poisonous materials have been found in them. Suspicion is that the radiation may completely destroy natural vitamins (biotin, riboflavin. etc.), since the test animals show classic symptoms of severe vitamin deficiency. But the tests were haphazard and incomplete, so no one is sure that this is really the reason or how irradiated foods can be made assuredly safe. Director Morse has concluded that the whole program had better be restudied...
...William Bruhn, 59, was elected president of Valspar Corp. (paints, varnishes) following the surprise resignation of Leslie B. Hartnett. Born in Kiel, Germany, Bruhn worked for German chemical firms before coming to the U.S. in 1926. To learn English, he worked as a vitamin-pill salesman, joined Valspar in 1929, became Chicago manager in 1933, was Western sales manager when he was picked for the presidency...
...pick up a reputation as an oddball. "I always liked to do kookie things," she insists, but now, with two unsuccessful marriages and years of unimportant roles behind her, she feels as if she is taking hold. Peter Gunn gave her steady work (though she still lives on vitamin shots and fights insomnia), and the chance to sing gave her a new career. Today, when she walks her dog around her modest Encino home, lonely Lola is beginning to think that the world looks good. And her tentative joy is reflected in the intimate warmth of her songs. "I never...
...drops on the other. In the first four days of the trek, Jumbo lost 300 lbs., but cheerfully contrived to put away her daily food ration of 150 lbs. of hay, 50 lbs. of apples, 40 lbs. of bread, 20 lbs. of carrots and half a pound of vitamin B. Hannibal's elephants never had it so good...
...metabolite), an analogue (close chemical kin) to fill the metabolite's place but yield no nourishment. First to use antimetabolites this way was Dr. Sidney Farber of Boston Children's Hospital and the Children's Cancer Research Foundation. Knowing that leukemic cells are avid for the vitamin folic acid, he began in 1947 to treat child victims of acute leukemia with analogues of folic acid. Lederle Laboratories sent Dr. Farber two, aminopterin and amethopterin. which soon brought about improvement in most of the children. But after weeks or months, their disease became resistant...