Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase in their tuition fees, ran riot in the pink, princely city of Jaipur, breaking shop windows and setting fires as they went. In subtropical Assam thousands boycotted the Independence Day celebrations in their wrath over a government announcement that a new refinery to process Assamese oil might be built outside Assam...
BIGGEST LAND-LEASE BOOM in Washington State since turn of century is being touched off by state's first big oil well (TIME, July 29). Oilmen have filed about 800 bids for leases on more than 450,500 acres of state-owned land, mostly near Sunshine Mining Co.'s test well outside Ocean City...
Last week the Olive Oil Institute of America was pumping out publicity to 1,700 radio stations and major newspapers extolling olive oil as not only tasty but loaded with "beneficial unsaturated fatty acids." On the back of Wheaties boxes, General Mills urges consumers: "Watch the 'fat-calories' in your diet to live longer!" Underneath is a chart (source attributed to the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports) giving the fat content of scores of foods. High on the list of unfatty foods: the "Breakfast of Champions...
Food Faddists. In women's magazines appeared ads from Corn Products Refining Co. praising "golden-light" Mazola salad-and-cooking oil as "pure corn oil . . . not hydrogenated, unsaturated, nutritionally unexcelled." In medical journals, Corn Products sharpened its attack, invited doctors to write in for a free booklet, "Vegetable Oils in Nutrition." stressing reports on the connection of undesirable fats and heart disease. "Evidence is accumulating," said the ad, "that quality of the dietary fat may be more important than quantity...
...growing population will produce as many problems as props for the economy. Said Senior Vice President James Neville Land, 62, in the bank's weekly newsletter: "Our rising population is creating pressures on natural resources which tend to retard further increases in material wellbeing. We must dig deeper oil wells and exploit less productive veins of coal and go farther afield for water supplies, all of which is a drag on prosperity...