Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steel's Voice? As remarkable as the change of crude ore to polished steel has been the mental metamorphosis of President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel Corp. in the past fortnight. Two weeks ago at the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting he spoke in a frank, uncompromising manner which was bearishly received (TIME, June 1). Three days later he made a radio speech telling of prosperity soon to come. At the Council he spoke once more. Waving the Tariff debate aside as "academic," he insisted that commodity prices must rise before recovery, but that "no one contemplating...
...experiences of many a small boy (like himself) whose weekly chore before the electric-blower era was to sweat and grunt over the pumphandle in the organ loft. Theirs was the duty, indispensable to organist and choir, of keeping a crude pressure-gauge above the danger mark. On rare occasions, dreadfully unforgettable, the pumper might lag from exhaustion "and wreck a full throated anthem or a shrill soprano solo in the agonized screeches of the high pipes and the guttural grunts of the low ones as the wind suddenly expired." Least penalty for such dereliction: dismissal in disgrace. Reward...
Suspected and separated since the fire during which both did rescue work, Prisoners Grate and Gibbons incriminated themselves by a note intercepted between them. Their first attempt at incendiarism, they confessed, was made with a crude kerosene fire bomb in December 1929. It failed. Twice again the plotters tried unsuccessfully to burn the wooden forms surrounding the concrete beams of a cell-block under construction. Fourth and successful attempt was made by filling a gravy bowl with oil and shavings, using two candles for a fuse...
...actual, original cup is a common silver vessel of poor and crude workmanship. The rim is broken in places, as if fragments had been removed as keepsakes. It is contained in an outer shell, whose workmanship establishes the antiquity of the Chalice and is the basis of the theory that the cup used by Christ and his disciples at the Last Supper was preserved and, perhaps several years after the Supper, fittingly decorated. The outer shell is a sheathing of elaborately sculptured silver, its gilded decorations carved in an openwork known in ancient times as opus interrasile...
...week gasoline stocks reached a new high for the year of 47,444,000 bbl. against 42,818.000 bbl. Jan. 1 and 55,239,000 bbl. a year ago. Refineries were operating at 65.3% of capacity against 70.9% at the same time last year. During the first two months crude oil production was 126,636,000 bbl. against 153,964,000 and imports 9,142,000 bbl. against...