Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign cars-from a French De Dion to an Italian Zust-trailed far behind. Boarding a freighter, Schuster headed to Japan, crossed to Vladivostok, then set out on the long trek across Siberia. Where there were no roads, Schuster made do with railroad tracks. When he ran out of oil, he lubricated the engine with Vaseline, a substance that lesser men of the era used on their hair, and he managed to find a bed to sleep in only five times in 72 days. Finally, on July 30, he chugged into Paris-the winner by almost four weeks. His circumnavigation...
...years, food manufacturers have used a chemical called butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, to prolong the storage life of fats in a variety of products-from shortening to salad oil to potato chips. Now researchers are beginning to wonder if the preservative cannot also be used to prolong the life of man. That possibility is suggested by Biochemist Denham Harman of the University of Nebraska medical school. With regular feedings of BHT, he was able to lengthen the life span of a strain of laboratory mice by 50%. "In human terms," says Harman, "this is equivalent to increasing life expectancy from...
...biggest industrial corporation in the U.S., as well as in the world, with 1967 sales of $20 billion and net earnings of $1.6 billion. But Ford Motor Co., which had been No. 2 in national standings, fell to No. 3. Moving into second place behind G.M. was Standard Oil (New Jersey). Sales under Chairman Michael Haider (TIME cover, Dec. 29, 1967) were $13.3 billion last year, or nearly $2.8 billion higher than Ford's. Two other corporations among the top ten also moved up. IBM, with sales of $5.3 billion and a lock on the biggest part...
There was also plenty of push and shove lower down on the list. Nine companies appeared for the first time among the industrial corporations with sales of more than a billion dollars: Ling-Temco-Vought, Signal Oil & Gas, Raytheon, Consolidated Foods, Honeywell, Coca-Cola, Getty Oil, TRW and Colgate-Palmolive. Five other corporations-Inland Steel, Grumman Aircraft Engineering, General Tire & Rubber, Jones & Laughlin Steel, and Olin Mathieson Chemical-fell out of that group. In sum, including also the merger of the billion-dollar member Douglas Aircraft into McDonnell Douglas last year, there was a net gain of three...
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