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With estimated reserves of 300 million barrels, the Redwater field already has 135 producing wells; new wells are being completed at the rate of 45 a month. Dozens of oil companies are in the field, the largest, Imperial Oil Ltd. of Canada, which is spending $500,000 on workers' housing alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Flowing Gold | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...winner, but this year, in nine starts, she had not won a race. Last week she made up for all that. In the second and deciding heat, Driver Egan kept her in hand all the way and she was first by five lengths. Miss Tilly took down the third largest winner's share ($37,617) of the second largest purse in Hambletonian history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Straight Heats | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...into the thinnest possible pieces. Afterwards it is mixed with one-fifth of sesame and one-fifteenth of opium poppy. When all of these have been pounded together in a mortar to a fine mass, knead it with honey and divide it into pieces as big as the largest olives. If one of these morsels is consumed around the second hour [about 8 a.m.] and another around the tenth hour [4 p.m.], no serious suffering will result from want of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Greek Pill | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...cutting costs to the bone and cutting employees in on profits, Dobbs and Hull made their Ford agency the world's largest (they branched out to eight other cities) and made themselves millionaires. Says Dobbs: "It's all profit sharing. The more your employees make, the more you make yourself." Each month, as soon as enough cash had been taken in to cover overhead, Dobbs told his salesmen to cut profits to $1 a car, if necessary to get sales, because the $1 was all profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: Food on the Fly | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Chicago's International Register Co. sells the hungry little gadget to retailers for $6.95. By last week, only a month after going on the market, the Meter-Matic was on some 5,000 refrigerators. In one of its zones, Nash-Kelvinator began July with the largest inventory it had ever carried. Meter-propelled sales soon cleaned out the stock. The General Furniture Co., in Chicago's slummy South Side, sold more than 2,000 refrigerators and other appliances in two weeks, almost all on the meter plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: A Quarter a Day | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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