Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many items have allegedly been identified by friends of Miss Canty, including an oil painting and an antique Chinese chest reportedly belonging to a Marble-head woman. A $3000 pearl necklace reportedly belonged to the wife of a Law School student...
Nine out of ten of the newcomers are Americans-Madison Avenue admen, Texas oil tycoons, Air Force, Army and Navy brass, and such public personalities as Arthur Godfrey and William Holden. Increasingly, safari firms are catering to a more middle-class trade, in recent years have found doctors, lawyers, dentists and business executives among their steady clients...
...would have been unthinkable a few years ago. But the new search for offshore oil has developed machinery capable of doing it. The rig that appeals to AMSOC is the Cuss I (named for Continental, Union, Shell and Superior companies), a 3,000-ton barge with a 98-ft. drilling derrick mounted amidships. The drill is carried on gimbals, so that heavy seas will not snap the drill pipe...
...Heller's method was to set up a pulsed electromagnetic field (80-180 pulses per sec., 27 megacycles) between electrodes. When he put tiny bits of iron, carbon, silver, oil, fat, starch or mammalian cells on a glass slide between the electrodes, he found that any asymmetrical particle promptly turned so that its long axis lay along the lines of force. Groups lined up Indian-file, like iron scraps between magnetic poles. Microorganisms such as bacteria or protozoa were forced to travel in similar paths; they resumed swimming normally at random only when the power was turned...
Detroit had always brushed off demands for a lower-priced small car with the remark that motorists could buy a good secondhand big car for about the same price. But the purchase price proved not the chief factor. The secondhand car usually burned more gas and oil, needed more repairs, was less economical than the foreign...