Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is crude satire on U. S. society which, whatever it is, is what it is and at that not vastly different from other societies. What, it may be asked, is the use of the corps diplomatique straining its brains and buttons to preserve the international amenities when at one fell blow they are violated without pomp or ceremony by a pictorial incitement to popular mutiny. It remains a shining platitude that all the efforts of suave diplomatists to weld Anglo-Saxonism into a case-hardened ideal are as a potato to a sitting hen in the face...
...believed that much of the purchased land will be used in an experimental attempt to grow rubber. This has long been a hobby of Harvey S. Firestone, President of the tire concern of that name and intimate friend of Henry Ford. Firestone has viewed with alarm the British crude rubber monopoly, and has urged the acquisition by this country of its own sources of supply. It is considered that Air. Ford's previous purchase of a large tract of land in Florida is linked with this more recent purchase, and that both indicate his intention to cultivate rubber plantations...
...years ago, the outstanding subject of the Society's discussions was fundamental research in the chemical compositions of crude oils. Last spring, interest focused upon the structure of the atom. Last week, the following were among the leading items and individuals on the program...
...West Babylon, N. Y., experimenters announced the development of a new illuminating gas. The raw material used: crude oil or refinery residuum. The product: a hydrogen and carbon combination containing no carbon monoxide because manufactured at low temperatures. The product's qualities : non-asphyxiating because void of carbon monoxide ; content of 1,600 British thermal (heat) units as against 525 to 585 units in most illuminating gases. From 7 gal. of refinery residuum are produced 1,000 cu. ft. of the new gas and a by-product of 1½ gal. of gasoline high in ethylene content...
...Every ten-cent advance in the cost of crude rubber means an assessment of about $75,000,000 against America." Thus, in 1925, the Rubber Restriction Act of Great Britain is likely to take at least $100,000,000 out of U. S. pockets...