Word: oil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferrer and Beatrice Pearson deserve great credit for their natural and absorbing performances, particularly Ferrer, who the movie magazines tell us hates acting worse than castor oil. Also memorable are the performances turned in by Susan Douglas and Richard Hilton, the two young stars who play the parts of the doctor's children...
Allergy tests made with husband, Holdridge's hair oil, hair, dandruff and clothing proved nothing. But Psychiatrist Gordon Dayton found the explanation. During interviews, Joyce Holdridge became jittery and itchy, just from talking about her husband...
...last 20 years, while flightier musicians have run off after every new craze in jazz, swing or bebop, Wayne King has stuck tenaciously to the waltz. This week, his single-mindedness rewarded with a whopping $200,000 TV contract, the "Waltz King" began a 40-week show for Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) over a Midwestern network (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., C.S.T...
...June, the agency had $2.3 billion tied up in loans and inventories, showing a paper loss of $356 million for the year at current market prices. Most of the support money went for only seven commodities: cotton, $822 million; corn, $470 million; wheat, $640 million; flaxseed, linseed oil, $231 million; potatoes, $219 million; peanuts, $173 million; tobacco, $107 million. And the new fiscal year has opened with a bang: wheat support during July cost $63 million. For the coming crop year, the cost of the support program is estimated at $2.1 billion...
Unlike the egg and potato surpluses, which have been problems for years, the flaxseed surplus is a new monster of the department's own making. U.S. paint manufacturers, big users of linseed oil (crushed from flaxseed), were being gouged by Argentine suppliers at the end of World War II. So the department encouraged domestic production by pegging the price of flaxseed at $6 a bushel. The encouraged farmers raised so much flaxseed that the market collapsed. CCC loss to date on flaxseed and linseed oil: $73 million...