Word: castor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1930 I visited O'Neill and his wife [at] a chateau outside Tours. He had a very beautiful Bugatti racing car which was kept in the peak of condition by a French mechanic. I was . . . pretty horrified by the fact that the car was lubricated with castor oil. O'Neill used to take the car put for a daily spin during which he drove it at very high speeds along the crown of the straight French roads. That was the Bugatti's only purpose. There was another car for the purpose of transportation...
...other vicious cycles. For want of soda ash, glass makers have been forced to cut down drastically; for want of glass bottles, dairies in New York and elsewhere have been forced to cut down on deliveries of milk, which is somewhat short for want of cows. For want of castor oil, used as brake and shock absorber fluid, automakers could not roll out all the cars they had hoped to deliver. For want of nails to make curing racks. Georgia farmers this year were threatened with the loss of half of their $57,000,000 peanut crop...
...Haves. But most businessmen blamed the present crazily unbalanced system of controls for the pyramiding secondary shortages that made the overall shortages worse by cutting off what supplies of materials there were. Worst bungle was in meat (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But there were others. Example: when Brazil's castor bean growers raised their price, the U.S. held firmly to its domestic ceiling until much of the crop was sold elsewhere. Had the bureaucrats learned their lesson? Last week, they showed once more that they hadn...
...appalled, to the grim testimony of former Lichfield prisoners. Men had been beaten there with fists and rifle butts till they were unconscious, then revived and ordered to clean up their own blood. Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were routine punishments. Purple Heart veterans were deliberately jabbed in their old wounds. There was even a ghastly, sardonic slogan among Lichfield guards: "Shoot a prisoner and be made a sergeant...
...been heard, the case of Sergeant Judson H. Smith came to an end. Firelight from an open grate flickered on Smith's grey, lined face as the court president, Colonel Louis P. Leone, announced the verdict: guilty of making prisoners eat excessive amounts of food, of administering castor oil, of two charges of felonious assault and four charges of simple assault (i.e., beatings). The sentence: dishonorable discharge and three years at hard labor...