Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among them: Dominion Explorers Ltd., Round Valley Oil Co. Ltd., W. R. Newman (Joseph H. Hirshhorn interests), Texaco Exploration Co., California Standard Co., Talent Oil Co., David Rosen (Sun Oil Co.), Sky Chief Explorations, George Radisics, Charter Oil...
...science's deepest mysteries is what makes living creatures grow and what makes most of them stop growing as they reach maturity. In Nature, Professor Carroll M. Williams of Harvard describes research that may cast light on this basic mystery. He has extracted from mammalian tissues a "golden oil" that, injected into a caterpillar, stops its development and prevents its transformation into a butterfly...
Biologists guessed a generation ago that the metamorphosis of insects (changing from larvae to pupae and from pupae to adults) is probably controlled by a chemical hormone. Three years ago Dr. Williams extracted an oil from the abdomens of silkworm moths, injected it into silkworm pupae. It stopped their normal development. The pupae never became adult moths, instead developed into a second kind of pupa. Smaller doses brought forth monstrosities with mingled patches of adult and juvenile tissue. Williams concluded that the oil contained a "juvenile hormone...
...Physiologist Williams found a substance apparently identical with the juvenile hormone in nearly every animal material from tenderloin steak to the human placenta. The richest source in any mammal seems to be the thymus gland, which is believed to control growth. Significantly, Williams found no trace of his golden oil in any vegetable...
...average, a shade above the December level and only a fraction above a year ago. Several major raw materials even registered sharp decreases. Lead was marked down from 12? to 11? per Ib. when the metal piled up despite import quotas. Because of a worldwide glut in oil, British Petroleum Co. lopped 18? per bbl. off the price of Mideast oil. Creole Petroleum cut 5? to 15? off the price of Venezuelan oil, and in the U.S., Gulf and Ohio Oil dropped their buying price for crude oil...