Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, employees of Houston's Crown Central Petroleum Corp. refinery settled down to hours of writing and rewriting lists of "grievances" against the company. It was a new sit-down technique. Explained cocky Arthur Hajecate, secretary-treasurer of the Houston local of the C.I.O.'s Oil Workers International Union: there is a loophole in the Taft-Hartley Act which permits employees to compose their gripes on company time...
...assured his audience that "the work done here may prove a thousand times more valuable to humanity than all the oil in Oklahoma," Fleming could hear the thudding accompaniment of a pumping well on nearby state land. Researcher Fleming had a word for the foundation's governors. It was up to them, he said, "to create the free atmosphere which will allow genius full play . . . Much in the future of humanity depends on the freedom of the researcher to pursue his own line of thought. Fundamental research thrives on free enterprise, and wilts and withers under too many controls...
...Manhattan, Rootes Motors, Inc. rented out its British-made Hillman autos for as long as two weeks with gas and oil free (minimum weekly charge: $65) and promised to deduct rental payments if the renter bought the car ($1,795). Like other British automakers, Rootes also offered tourists the chance to pay for a car in the U.S., pick it up and drive it in England this summer, and have it shipped back free of charge...
...Tulsa, a furniture store offered every customer three chances on a 1/16th interest in an oil well being drilled near by, kept the public posted in daily newspaper ads on the depth of the well...
...Hanoi, Surgeon May makes his rounds, trotting through an atmosphere of opium and betel nut, respectfully probing the innards of royal concubines, palpating a slew of Somerset Maughamish transplanted Europeans without whom the mysterious East would probably be far less mysterious. Stretched in their hammocks, patting on the suntan oil, most U.S. readers will gladly tag along with...