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John Barrymore was stricken again, and gravely. Suffering from "an abdominal condition resulting from liver and kidney ailments," he was rushed to a Hollywood hospital, next day developed pneumonia, lapsed into semiconsciousness, four days later was still unconscious most of the time. Elder Brother Lionel, as before, subbed...
Before beginning their dietary ordeal, the participants ate an extra quantity of vitamin A in the form of halibut liver oil with their regular meal. During the test, the fare contained lass than a tenth of what is usually considered the minimum vitamin requirement, and only one-fiftieth the amount recommended by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council...
...they know that Food Minister Lord Woolton is doing about everything possible with the supplies available. Not only is the meat ration down to 25? per week per person, but 3? of it must be taken in corned beef, thus lessening the possibilities for stews from weekly roasts. Offals (liver, brains, kidneys, etc.) are still unrationed, but most of the supplies have been sent to the canning companies. Rarely now can British families sit down to a dinner of their beloved steak & kidney pie. U.S. canned meats, though moderately plentiful, are unpopular because they require so many coupons...
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...