Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chocolate in his pocket, Oppenheimer liked to ride his horse Chico 40 rugged miles in a day, exploring the Sangre de Cristo Mountains up to the peaks. In the evenings, he would nibble on canned artichoke hearts, drink fine Kirschwasser, and read Baudelaire by the light of an oil lamp. He invented an abstruse variety of tiddlywinks, played on the geometric designs of a Mexican rug. Perro Caliente was "the kind of place one reads about in dreams...
Corporations yelled out their third-quarter reports last week as excitedly as newsboys handing out extras-which was just what many of them were doing. More than 100 in such varied industries as oil, machinery, mining, steel, retail sales, chemicals, distilling-and even playing cards-declared extra dividends in cash or stock. Of some 200 companies reporting for the period ending Sept. 30, only six showed deficits, though some 60 others were down from the same period last year. For most, the combination of higher prices and high production made the quarter the most profitable in corporate history...
Comeback In Rails. The oil industry, as usual, led the prosperous parade. The major companies showed increases in net profits over the third quarter of 1947 ranging from 35% for Union Oil Co. of California (to $7,043,427) to 82% for Skelly Oil Co. (to $10.6 million...
...cracked that "What America needs is a good $6,000 house," the Price brothers sat down to see if it could be done. They substituted an insulated concrete-slab floor for hardwood floors, eliminated the basement in favor of a utility room with a hot-water heater, put an oil heater in the living room and left closets doorless. They got the cost of the unassembled house down to $2,089 f-o.b. the plant. Added costs of erection, wiring, plumbing, etc., said Jim Price, should keep the house under $6,000 on a site costing no more than...
...Francis Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds, 47, Britain's eleventh ranking duke: Irma Amelia Howard, 39, ex-ballet dancer; after 15 years of marriage, no children; in London. In 1947 the Duchess got a U.S. divorce, which Britain did not recognize, next day married her third husband, Manhattan Oil Consultant Frank Atherton Howard...