Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steel's sudden prosperity was the very uniqueness that had kept it unobtrusive. A nonintegrated producer that purchases pig iron and scrap for its twelve open-hearth furnaces, it specialized in heavy steel plate, therefore cashed in on the peak demand for heavy plate caused largely by the oil tanker boom...
RAILROADS' OIL DRILLING will be banned along rail rights-of-way in Western U.S. Supreme Court ruled Government retains title to oil and gas deposits for 200 ft. on both sides of rights-of-way that it granted from...
...fragments are prepared for mounting. Those too brittle to be uncurled are placed in a humidifier until they are pliable enough to be pressed flat. Then they are cleaned of sand, mold and marl (a clayey sediment) with fine camel's-hair brushes, sometimes dipped in castor oil. Some are so delicate that special brushes of only a few hairs must be used; and these fragments bear warnings-Don't Touch or, occasionally, DON'T BREATHE...
...good. It has no flywheel, crankshaft or connecting rods. It has many valves to shunt air through the various chambers, but they are all self-operating, and none are exposed to high temperature. The engine can be made to run on almost any combustible liquid, even thick black bunker oil. Since the gases that spin the turbine have been mixed with scavenging air, they are not very hot (800-900° F.), so the turbine need not be made of expensive, heat-resistant metals...
...both. Except for an Ingres and Van Gogh drawing, a Cézanne oil and a few other late igth century works, the collection consists entirely of contemporary art, ranging from Afro to Vuillard, and including Picasso, Rouault. Matisse, Klee, Braque, MirÓ, Villon, Bonnard, Tamayo. Elvira and another early buy, Max Beckmann's Zeretelli (opposite), are typical of the individual pictorial styles and expressiveness that caught Pulitzer's eye. One of the best painters to come out of Germany in this century, Beckmann did this perceptive portrait of the ballet dancer-prince in 1927 as part...