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...Dutch scientist named Eijkman discovered that fowls contract a certain disease like beriberi if fed upon polished rice; that they can be cured by feeding them the part of the rice grain removed in polishing. In 1911 Casimir Funk, a Pole, proposed the name vitamine for this essential substance, whatever it was. Since that time vitamin has followed vitamin in quick succession?mainly discovered in U. S. laboratories. The orthodox three are "Fat-soluble A," "Water-soluble B," and "Water-soluble C." Then. there is Vitamin X," the reproductive vitamin. And lately many investigators have been working...
...contract for the printing of the Freshman Red Book has been given to the Andover Press, according to an announcement made last night. The provisions of the contract require that one half the contents be delivered to the publisher by April 24, and the rest by May 7. The 1927 Red Book will probably be ready for distribution about June...
...Means asserted: 1) that he had received for Jesse Smith $100,000 in cash from a representative of Mitsui Co., Japanese bankers, in connection with a War contract case with the Standard Aircraft Corporation; 2) that he had received, also on Smith's behalf, various sums from the Dempsey-Carpentier fight film affair; 3) that he had tried "to get something" on Senators; La Follette and Caraway; 4) that President Harding had ordered that he investigate Secretary Mellon in regard to liquor withdrawal frauds?"the President wanted that information in regard to him: to catch him, and we caught...
Giulio Gatti-Casazza has done all this for the Metropolitan Opera Company for the past 16 years. Still far from broken, he continues to be liked by his company. So it was not surprising to learn last week that he had signed a contract to retain his directorship for five years more...
Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France: "I entered into a preliminary contract for the purchase of a residence in the Avenue d'Iena for the American Embassy. I announced, however, that refitting will take several months so that even under the most favorable circumstances it cannot be occupied until toward the end of the year...