Word: crude
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Merrill's Marauders arrived in India in October, soon got used to the Burma jungle. From Ledo last month they began their 100-mile circling march to the rear of the Japanese concentrations at Maingkwan, averaging 20 miles a day down crude trails Kachin tribes of Burmese had hacked many years ago. To avoid ambush, greatest terror of jungle warfare, intelligence and reconnaissance squads always patrolled the trails ahead of and behind their columns. Only once were they fooled by a grass dummy which was covered by a Jap machine gun- two men were killed but the lesson...
...growth hormone has always been the most famous pituitary hormone. In the 19203 Dr. Evans was using crude extracts of it to make rats as big as small dogs. By 1935 he was making outsize dachshunds. He thinks the pure product will be useful in preventing children with pituitary deficiency from becoming dwarfs. But he does not think enough will ever be available to make undersized nations bigger. Said he last week, when someone suggested that the Japs might get rid of their inferiority complex by using the growth hormone: "We are not interested in creating a race of behemoths...
...Rubber. Profitwise, the No. 1 surprise was rubber. After booming 1941, tire makers were hard hit by the shortage in crude. Then followed the intricate, trouble-studded job of turning out a host of new products, with tricky synthetics. But Goodyear's Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield now revealed that volume had soared a resounding 68% during 1943. Profits had tagged along, ending up at $21,479,000 ($8.94 a share) v. 1942's $14,371,000. Percentagewise, U.S. Rubber did even better with...
...oilmen and their Government are looking toward the day when the Western Hemisphere will be little more than self-sufficient in oil, if that, and the rest of the world will in the main be supplied from the Middle East. Drilling in that region is so easy that crude costs only one-third to one-half what it does in the U.S. More, this reversal of the oil flow is also geographically feasible: Melbourne is almost equidistant from California and Arabia; the Mediterranean outlets of the Middle East are no farther from the eastern seaboard of the U.S. than...
...plant. Butyl production is still negligible. The U.S. can still use Du Pont's neoprene (production: 49,000 tons yearly) for tubes. But the military long ago grabbed the lion's share of that. This left, as the only tube alternative, Buna S, mixed with the priceless crude rubber from the shrinking stockpile. On this basis the U.S. can afford few tubes...