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...vitamin" B 1 ; 2) nicotinic acid (to prevent pellagra); 3) iron. Although enrichment accounts for only 3% of baking costs, less than a third of U.S. bread is now vitaminized. Reason: public apathy, bakers' indifference. One large baking company in Washington, D.C., among the first to fortify its flour, has now gone back to baking plain white bread...
...always in time of danger, there were some who bolted like frightened yearlings. They started runs on flour, although the U.S. has two years' supply of wheat in granaries, and on sugar, which is in no immediate danger of becoming as scarce as it was in World War I. In Washington there was a heavy sale of rifles and pistols-for use against parachutists...
This week panic buyers of sugar and flour remembered how they had done the same thing in 1939, and how foolish they felt afterward. Theater attendance picked up. Christmas buying edged back to normal. The first shock was over...
...Food is so inadequate that every disease is influenced by malnutrition. The average diet in North China rarely includes meat, consists of yellow corn and millet flour, sometimes mixed with soybean flour, and sesame or peanut oil. People who have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North...
...collected wood dust is shipped east to plastics makers. "Wood flour forms the base for practically all the plastics," explains the machine's inventor, Engineer Frederick Kurt Kirsten of the University of Washington. "Up to now it has had to be ground-a laborious process-and much of it came from Norway and Sweden." Within a few weeks, a plywood factory in Portland, Ore. sold several carloads of wood dust, a profitable by-product of purifying...