Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue you mentioned a 60-year-old Philadelphia woman who got a skin rash after gathering cashew nuts in Ceylon. When it is picked from the tree, the cashew nut is covered with a hard tough shell that has a thin layer of black oil underneath. This oil is quite corrosive to the skin. It is in the shell, however, which is left in India -in fact is used for fuel-and is not in the kernel that...
...shelled by hand after being roasted to make the shell soft and brittle. The shelling is done by women. Each woman has a pan of ashes by her, and after shelling two or three nuts she dips her hands into the ashes, which protect the fingers from the corrosive oil. In this way they shell nuts all day, everyday, for weeks and months on end, and never have any skin trouble...
...land that Nuri presides over, the classic land between the Tigris and the Euphrates, is the size of California. Long known as Mesopotamia, oil-rich Iraq is now shaking itself free from the sand that has drifted over it for centuries...
Even discounting high-energy fuels, borax production is already based solidly on the requirements of more than 100 industries, ranging from glass to pesticides, fertilizers to soaps. And further uses for boron are being found every day. Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) has developed a boron additive for gasoline to provide better economy and lower engine maintenance, is marketing it through Richfield Oil Corp. and Sunray Oil Corp. Though boron for gasoline this year would account for only $500,000 of all borax sales, U.S. Borax hopes to sell the boron additive directly to dealers, swell boron gas into a healthy...
...read the luncheon menu at one of Manhattan's newest and biggest restaurants last week. Price of the meal: 97?. Owner of the restaurant: Socony Mobil Oil Co., which installed a cafeteria and seven dining rooms in its Manhattan headquarters to give 2,400 employees bargain food at a sizable loss to itself every month. Operated by the Brass Rail Restaurant (on a cost-plus fee basis), the dining rooms are graded according to rank, with white-collar workers in one room, various executive echelons in the others. All rooms are air-conditioned, have piped-in music...