Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sternutators cause sneezing and vomiting, and were occasionally used in the last war because they penetrated the then crude gas masks, produced their irritations, caused men to remove masks and fall victim to more lethal gases...
Does he not think that his methods are a trifle crude-vide Rotterdam and Coventry...
...last week traffic was reported going strong both ways: airplanes and their parts, refined oil and its derivatives, machinery, ammunition, medical supplies into China; furs, skins, animal fats, crude oil and other products out. This meant that supply vessels unloading at Vladivostok could clear port with pay loads...
...Donald Coster (Philip Musica) of McKesson & Robbins always took a close personal interest in his auditors, Price, Waterhouse & Co. He first hired the firm in 1925; used their audits to get respectable banker backing; always saw that the sales and inventory records (i.e., pieces of paper) of his fictitious crude drug department were in A-1 shape...
When the truth about the crude drug fantasy was first announced, a Price, Waterhouse man exclaimed, "Why, that's the best-run department in the business." Wrote Coster to Price, Waterhouse in 1936: ". . . Only in auditing [has] our company really got its money's worth." During the two years since McKesson's receivership and Coster's suicide, McKesson (under Trustee William Jed Wardall) has made gradual progress toward reorganization. One of Trustee Wardall's jobs is to recover assets; one source of recoveries was Coster's board of directors, who gave him enough votes...