Word: oil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death. When Bonnard himself died in 1947, the obvious fakery of the will threw everything into confusion. Bonnard's direct heirs found themselves challenged for a half share in the estate by four nieces of his wife Marthe. The works that Bonnard had left behind-some 600 oil paintings, 500 watercolors, hundreds of drawings-were put under seal in the vaults of a Paris bank...
...saving machinery by 1,200%-mostly with machines that had not even been invented in 1938. Farmers have invested $17.5 billion in 1,040,000 combines, 745,000 cornpickers, 590,000 pickup hay balers, 255,000 field forage harvesters and other machinery. They spend $1.5 billion for gasoline and oil each year just to keep the equipment going...
...Government moved a step closer to mandatory controls of oil imports. In its report last week to President Eisenhower, the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization recommended a new compulsory import schedule to replace the voluntary curbs, which OCDM apparently felt have not cut imports enough...
...that is sacred to him: 1) the control of Congress by the two Texans, Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (''When you get these two men together with the power of making committee assignments, you see the obsequious bowing, scraping Senators and Congressmen around them"); 2) the oil depletion allowance ("a terrific tax handout and giveaway"); 3) Johnson's talents for civil rights compromise ("Effective civil rights legislation is impossible"). Then Proxmire, a Harvard Business School graduate ('40), blamed Johnson for keeping him off the Senate Finance Committee despite repeated requests, noted sarcastically that the Committee...
Wintergreen for Laxative. In New York City last week a longshoreman, 62, went to his medicine cabinet in the dark seeking castor oil, pulled out the wrong bottle and drank 2 oz. of oil of wintergreen. He was soon in convulsions and a raging fever, and threatened with death from brain damage. Rushed to Bellevue Hospital, he was stretched out beside the artificial kidney, which was primed with two pints of blood containing heparin to prevent clotting. Attending doctors from Cornell University put a cannula into the radial artery in the patient's wrist, connected this by polyethylene tubes...