Word: naphtha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whale fat is not used in the U. S. as a base for margarine. But Scandinavian and German margarines contain it. Hydrogenated, snowy white, in the U. S. it goes into Procter & Gamble's "Chipso" and "P & G" naphtha soap. Into New York Harbor last fortnight steamed the Sir James Clark Ross with oil from 1,444 whales for Procter & Gamble...
...return will be for cash, but just what these purchases will be was not divulged last week. Rumor said lumber, coal, mineral ores, petroleum. Chief weakness of Italy's war machine is her great lack of coal and petroleum in commercial quantities. It is known that the Soviet Naphtha Syndicate of Moscow, official distributor of Soviet oil, has set up a subsidiary company in Italy known as Petrolea. Observers guessed that Petrolea will be given the job of stocking the enormous oil reservoirs which Italy's army and navy are now building...
...buys or produces 50% of the total U. S. edible fat production, uses 90% of all whale oil imported into the U. S. Most famed throughout the U. S. is Procter & Gamble's Ivory Soap which is "99 44/100 pure" and "Floats." But P. & G. Naphtha is said to be the largest selling soap in the world. Famed also are P. & G.'s Camay (toilet soap) and Crisco (shortening...
...hours with M. Tardieu, then dashed back to his plane, flew home to London. Observers pondered the most widely believed explanation of Sir Henri's movements: he came at the request of M. Tardieu who wanted to know whether French consumers of certain petroleum products (especially naphtha) which they now buy from the Soviet Union could be sure of a reasonably priced supply from Sir Henri's associates should France decide to break with Russia...
Last week workmen in an alcohol plant at Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey's refinery at Linden, N. J., smelled escaping naphtha gas. Before they could telephone a report to the office, something exploded. The air around the building flared and roared. Long blue flames waved out the windows. Men on the ground were knocked flat. Others were blown from roofs and scaffoldings 200 feet away. Flaming men with clothes and flesh in tatters blindly staggered out of the building, ran screaming off into a fence surrounding the reservation, collapsed in the snow. In a few minutes...