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...Vitamin pills were consumed regularly, when they were available, but many Tokyo-ites relied for defense against the dreaded common cold upon a door sign that said: "Hisamatsu does not live here...
...Vitamin-enriched beer...
Corporal Newman thumbed his nose at death, took another vitamin pill, some more of his mother's biscuits...
...Americans, if we believe all the advertisements we read, have to take a vitamin pill or two every day to get through that little letdown we are said to have in the middle of the afternoon, and most of us are pretty well supplied with vitamins in our regular diet. But the Chinese haven't had enough vitamins for years and years, and they are more jittery and irritable and restless than ordinarily, and they are tired. They are anemic, they are full of parasites and malaria and tuberculosis and dysentery. They have got to have adequate food...
...vitamin pills seemed to have more effect on the worker's mental vigor than on their physical condition; the vitamin eaters got sick just about as often as the others, but they played hooky less often and seemed much keener and happier at their work. The investigators figured that the pills had added the equivalent of 10½ working days a year to each man's output...