Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spotlight, because Venezuela's oil boom has spurred attention-getting public works, Mendoza has been on the rise since he quit high school at 17 ("I was too much in a hurry") to go to work as an office boy. At 28, he owned a thriving construction import business, and his interests were gushing out like Venezuela's oil. He expanded into a 3,000-acre dairy farm, three cement plants (which produce half the national supply), pulp and paper products, insurance, a paint factory, a giant finance company. As he prospered. Mendoza took care...
...pledges were marched to a buffet table. On a tray lay thick slices of oil-soaked raw liver, each about the size of a club sandwich. Gagging and coughing, the first six pledges managed to get the liver down without chewing it; that was part of the ritual...
...shock waves at the rate of 35,000 per minute. These shock waves, traveling through the water, break open the cells in much the way that a depth charge can crack a submarine's hull, and the cell's contents-mostly water, protein, and fat or oil-spill out. The slurry is passed through a screen and centrifuge to remove fibrous material and insoluble carbohydrates. Then the protein is separated from the oil by commercial solvents, and dried. The result is a white, odorless, tasteless powder, which can be baked in bread or added to almost any food...
...Nigeria, a leading export is peanuts. When oil is extracted from peanuts by normal methods, the residue is a rough oil cake, fit only for animals. But a few of Chayen's mechanical cows could digest Nigeria's whole crop, extracting both oil and edible protein. The oil and other byproducts could be exported, earning as much money as exporting the peanuts whole, and the protein could be retained to correct Nigeria's protein-deficient diet. A machine digesting four tons of peanuts per hour would cost only $700,000, and it would supply enough protein...
...Nicklaus bothered by the prospect of eventually figuring the lie of the greens against Defending Champion Charlie Coe, 35, the dry-spoken, shaft-lean (6 ft., 150 lbs.) oil broker from Oklahoma City. Nicklaus had just the club to back up his long game off the tee: an oldfashioned, hickory-shafted putter, which he had ordered in Scotland last spring while helping Captain Coe defend the Walker Cup against the British amateurs. In the semifinals, faced with a 27-ft. putt downhill over a hump, Nicklaus precisely moved his new bat and watched the ball trickle home to eliminate California...