Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would like to point out to you that, as in every good salad dressing, the proportion of vinegar and oil must be calculated with exactitude and balance. In this article your reporter appears to have been rather frivolous in the use of both these elements, converting a dream into a nightmare...
...just finished its compilation last week when Phillips Petroleum's President Kenneth S. Adams announced in Calgary that his company had bought an interest in 4,800,000 acres of oil rights in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In its northern venture, Phillips was following the trail of such giants as Standard Oil (N.J.) and the Texas Co. They and other U.S. firms were turning out 66% of all petroleum products made in Canada...
...Oil was not the only field for the Yankee dollar. Last year, Chrysler, General Motors and Ford* turned out automotive products worth $183 million, 95% of Canadian production. Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodyear and Goodrich did 60% of the rubber business, and other well-known U.S. manufacturing names were familiar throughout the provinces. In the latest DBS report Coca-Cola has 22 bottling works, Borden Co. 23 dairy processing plants, Swift 26 packinghouses...
...shortage was partly due to a shortage of Canadians (12.8 million v. 148.5 million U.S. population). Moreover, many a Canadian in the chips wanted to play it safe. He put his money in the more conservative wood pulp, paper and textile industries, left such speculative fields as oil to gambling Americans with specialized know...
...about painting there's always the gamble as to whether that actual physical touch will do what you want it to." At 45, Sutherland is one of Britain's best landscape painters; until lately he had never tackled realistic portraiture. When his first try, a full-length oil of Author Somerset Maugham, was finished last week, artist and sitter agreed that the gamble had paid...