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Armed with wooden machine guns and four munitionless 75's, the Unit, undaunted, rallied nearly 100 volunteers for a last ditch stand against the enemy troops of the Massachusetts State Guard, who had landed on Cape Cod and were advancing on the Capitol...
Only a fulltime hoarder, with unlimited bankroll, could keep up with the flood tide of shortages; no hoarder had the future really cased without a full stock of hair curlers and wigs, Easter lilies and lawn mowers, girdles and cod-liver oil, sugar and quinine, gin and tea, rubber diapers and bronze caskets...
...Because U.S. chickens consume more vitamin D than the U.S. citizenry, Du Pont has developed a synthetic product to replace the cod-liver oil formerly imported and fed to poultry. Made from sterols (solid alcohols) extracted from animal fats and irradiated with ultraviolet light, it is conveniently dry rather than gooey, like fish oils. Poultrymen last year spent thousands of dollars for vitamin D products to insure strong-shelled eggs, high hatching rates, low mortality...
Before the war, the U.S. imported much of its medical supply of vitamin A from Norway-72,000,000 lb. of cod-liver oil annually. But after the German invasion, drug companies had to scurry around for a new source. Result was a shark boom on the West Coast...
...snarling, bait-swallowing pest whose carcass brought only $10 a ton for fertilizer, though Chinese sometimes bought his fins for soup. But shrewd Fish Buyer Guaragnella had a hunch. Seeing a huge Galeorhinus liver, he had it tested, found it was 100 times as rich in vitamin A as cod liver...