Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many wild orchids from Colombia for the Air Express edition of TIME ! I have been gathering crude rubber in the Amazon, eating beefsteaks in the Argentine, climbing the Andes, and picking coffee in Colombia during the past four months-writing a get-acquainted series of articles for our Midwestern farmers on how our Latin American neighbors live, what they grow, and how they grow it. That has brought me up to date south of the border, but behind the times back home. That is, until I got the Air Express edition of TIME which enabled me to sit down...
...cost by tanker. Admittedly, they can't fill the hole. The oil companies, which own most of the pipelines anyway, have therefore turned to pipelines. To avert exhaustion of its eastern stocks, Standard of New Jersey last week started pumping 27,500 barrels of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana crude a day via Tulsa and southern Illinois to its New Jersey refinery, 1,700 miles in all. The cost of this overland routing is 60? a barrel, against 21? or less by tanker. The rail rate would be about $1.80. Such cost increases make Leon Henderson's price-holding...
...David Levinson and Robert Minor were never kidnapped or beaten in New Mexico [TIME, April 7]. They kidnapped themselves, with the help of New Mexico Communists, as a cheap publicity stunt and did such a crude job as to make themselves ridiculous instead of Communist heroes...
That done, Trustee Wardall could finalize his reorganization plan. Against total osterized assets of $86,556,000 (1937), the new company's assets are valued at $76,900,000, most of the difference representing Coster's fictitious "crude drug" inventories. After subtracting $15,725,000 of debentures and some $17,400,000 in creditors' claims, preference and common stockholders are left with around $43,800,000 equity. Last year's indicated net profit...
...Tobacco Road," the book, was the "Grapes of Wrath" of the Hoover era. Its coarse characters, crude action, and real-to-life plot made it a sociology text as well as a novel. It was a chunky, earthy portrayal of actual conditions on Georgia tenant farms by a writer whose pen had the realistic flair of Rembrandt's paintbrush. Adapted for the stage in 1933 "Tobacco Road" broke all records for longevity and attendance. Its dialogue was delivered not only with Georgia drawl but also with Georgia poor-white, obscene explicitness. The pathetic humor of the play prodded the social...