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Word: oil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retired foreman and 20-year sufferer of arthritic pain and misery. You're looking at them now as they experience a totally new kind of pain relief . . ." An Infra-Rub plug: "Brings comforting warmth from deep within . . . 146 doctors report success based on hundreds of cases." For Omega Oil: "It contains an active ingredient that actually penetrates the skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Out, Damned Spot | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

THIS week the eyes of most art-loving Texans are on oils, not oil. With Houston the center of the American Federation of Arts' 1957 convention, and Dallas, San Antonio and Fort Worth standing by to receive the convention's airlift tour, the four cities' museums, galleries, private homes and department stores have turned themselves into showcases for art, displaying everything from such private collections as Social Leader Ima Hogg's Colonial Americans to a sampling of just about every living Texas painter and sculptor. But the standout exhibit is the handsome tribute, co-sponsored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE BROTHERS | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

ITALIAN-IRANIAN OIL pact will make Italy's state-owned ENI company a major operator in Middle East, give it drilling rights in Iran's rich new fields (potential production: 35 million bbl. a year) at Qum. Combine of U.S., British, Dutch and French companies already operating in Iran was refused permission to exploit Qum, fears that terms of deal giving Iran 70% to 75% share of profits will upset traditional fifty-fifty split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

EXOTIC-FUEL DEAL will put Gulf Oil Corp. into new field of high-energy jet and missile fuels. Gulf is buying 25% of Gallery Chemical Co., developers of promising "HiCal" boron fuel (TIME, March 18), will start joint research and production program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...Oil for the Giants. Texas Instruments got into electronics by an unusual route. Originally called Geophysical Service Inc., it started out after World War I as an oil-exploration service, pioneered methods for locating oil-bearing rock formations by shooting sound waves into the earth. The idea was so successful that in the late 1930s Geophysical Service earned a reputation as the world's leading independent oil-exploration service, helping bigger companies find oil pools from Canada to Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Newcomer's Growth | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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