Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen hundred ships a year called at Pará (now Belém do Pará); and a thousand miles up the orchid-stinking Amazon ocean freighters pulled up to the $40,000,000 stone pier and floating dock at Manaus. They took away a single cargo, bolachas (crude rubber balls). They brought a more varied one: pink tiles, champagne, pâté de foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again...
...simultaneously a ward of the Federal courts, a debtor of the U. S. Treasury (for at least $5,000,000 of unpaid taxes), and a regulatee of SEC, which Hopson's 1935 utility lobby tried to keep out of the utility business by methods so crude that the rest of the industry disowned...
...young, blond, solidly-built Abram Peters Steckel, engineering student, watched sweating men in a wire plant reduce cold rods to thin wire by successive draws through rollers and dies. Mechanically-minded Steckel thought the same idea could be used in reducing steel strips and sheets. He built a crude cold-rolling mill in a friend's garage, went broke...
...those two movements is set the heart and brain of the work, an 80-page interior monologue by Goethe himself, which must stand next to Death in Venice among Mann's more paralyzing tours de force, the more astonishing in that it is, in certain important respects, so crude...
...Worst inventory sufferer remained the oil industry, which was also suffering from export trouble. In the first five months of this year crude oil and gasoline exports were 29,204,000 barrels, 34% less than in the same months of 1939. Gasoline tank car prices had reached a new seven-year low. Gasoline inventories were just under 100,000,000 barrels, about 20,000,000 more than the trade thinks they ought to be. Consequence: No. 1 U. S. oil producer, Texas, last week ordered crude-oil production prorated down 219,000 barrels a day. To complicate the readjustment...