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...burgeoning Transportation Corps, whose chief, Major General Charles P. Gross, West Point-educated engineer, became one of the Army's topflight commanders when Transportation was organized ten months ago. The duties of the Transportation Corps (a part of the Army Service Forces) are as numerous and as complex as those of any organization in the Army, but none is as dramatic as shipping soldiers off to war. The Transportation Corps moves the outfit-usually by rail-from the training camp to an assembly point, somewhere in the vicinity of a port of embarkation. There the soldiers spend a period...
...original list of four vitamins (A, B, C, D) has been extended to 13. Vitamin B, a complex, has been separated into at least eight distinct chemicals. In addition, vitamins E and K are more recent discoveries. Half a dozen others are suspected and may soon be recognized. With such complexity, the alphabetical system of names has broken down and the chemical names have come into general...
...Niacin (formerly nicotinic acid) is the chief constituent of the B-complex and prevents pellagra. It is now the cheapest of the synthetics-$5 a pound...
...Pyridoxin and pantothenic acid are the remaining known constituents of the former B-complex. They are newly developed, often omitted from multiple-vitamin preparations. Pantothenic acid is popular as a possible preventive of grey hair...
More than the other conquered-nations productions, this one is essentially a serious play about individual ideological dilemmas. Those represented here are complex and not very clearly dramatized, and are apt to leave audiences dangling. For this fault, neither Writer Dudley Nichols (scripter of The Informer) nor Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion) is entirely to blame: they bit off more than they could chew...