Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials essential for war purposes. Although last August the United States shut off exports of aviation fuel to Japan, Nipponese officials claim that American and Dutch concerns have stocked her with enough gasoline for a year. Furthermore, rumors are of ten heard that our oil companies are still sending crude fuel which is cracked upon arrival. We are still shipping scrap iron, tin plate, cotton, aluminum, lumber, and hides, and are still buying silk...
Platinum & Diamond Dust. A pioneer of powder metallurgy was an Englishman, William Hyde Wollaston, who in 1829 described a process for working platinum, whose melting point (3224° F.) was too high for the crude furnaces then in use. As better furnaces were developed, his technique was little used until about 1910 when U.S. scientists, notably General Electric's William David Coolidge, revived it as the only practical way of making ductile tungsten (melting point 6100° F.) from which thin wires for light bulb filaments could then be drawn through holes in diamonds...
...leased or owned by private shippers. They are "idle" because the whole tank-car fleet (150,000 cars) unquestionably has not been used to full efficiency in the past. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission hastily approved new rail rates-about 25% lower on gasoline, 27-40% lower on crude oil-which will give both oilmen and railroads a chance to prove how much more they can haul...
According to their stories, they sickened on rotten food. In crude bunks they lay for days, some of them stricken with fever. Six died. Many slept in lifeboats (left) rather than endure the stinking hold. One physician said that it was a "miracle" no epidemic broke out. They nicknamed their ship the Nevermore...
...freight cars in the Aug. 30 week, a new 1941 top. This week they start the final climb to the October seasonal peak. Power output hit 3,233 million k.w.h., highest ever and 18.2% above last year. As the Eastern gas shortage grew less fearsome, oilmen boosted weekly crude production to 4,004,700 barrels, a new record. Despite disemployment in some sections, the consumer buying orgy continued. July electric range sales jumped 118%, refrigerators 37%, both to new records. Season fur sales rose...