Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technological Revolution. Unlike soldering, welding does not consist merely of sticking two objects together with metal glue. Instead it fuses them into one piece, almost as if they were recast. The village blacksmith did a crude form of welding when he heated two iron rods to the melting point and hammered them together till they fused, but modern welding is a much more efficient operation...
Edna Ferber is more adroit. Her Creole heroine, Clio Dulaine, is not only beautiful, but hard, in the manner of Scarlett O'Hara and other cut-rate Becky Sharps. Clio takes up with Gambler Clint Maroon: "He was magnificent, he was vast, he was beautiful, he was crude, he was rough, he was untamed, he was Texas." He was also a gambler, but Clio soon seduced him into larger ambitions...
This is a familiar scare. Time & again U.S. oil reserves have fallen sharply, only to be replenished by a big new discovery. But previous discoveries were also preceded by a phenomenon not now present: rising prices for crude...
...catnip for the wildcats, oilmen have a standard recipe: higher oil prices. In San Francisco last week Cities Service Oil President William Alton Jones asserted: "Unquestionably a higher price would increase exploration ... 25? tacked on to the current $1.20 price (midcontinent crude) would stimulate a 20% expansion...
...must have remembered Nikolai Lenin's praise of his article in 1905 on governing minorities, the first time he used the signature J. Stalin: "We have here a wonderful Georgian." Nor could he forget Lenin's final repudiation of him as too "crude and narrow-minded" four months before Lenin's death. But gradually he had created a new Lenin of his own, a legend to be his own backdrop. He could afford in 1939 to be one of the sad-faced bearers of the ashes of Lenin's widow; he now can face Lenin...