Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OIL: U.S. barriers designed to protect domestic industry cast a pall of uncertainty over Canada's oil future, should be revoked. "If oil is needed for defense, there is no legitimate distinction between the wells of North Dakota and Texas, of Alberta and Saskatchewan...
Building further their brothers-under-the-greenbacks camaraderie, ardent Art Fancier Averell Harriman, Democratic Governor of New York, offered to Republican Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller, an art lover even more ardent, a token of no hard feelings: the loan of eight etchings and two oils by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and one oil by John Singer Sargent for Rockefeller's use in the executive mansion...
...vegetable fat ratio while disturbing the eating patterns as little as possible. They did this by: 1) eliminating most of the saturated fat from the diet by cutting out fatty meats, butter, whole milk, cream, most cheeses, egg yolks, oleomargarine, hydrogenated shortenings, coconut and cocoa products; 2) adding cottonseed oil (though soybean, corn or peanut oil would have done as well) to make up the fat deficit...
...Large Appetites. In the clinic's rigidly controlled tests, the cottonseed oil was a special brand that could be used as a spread on bread and emulsified in a blender with nonfat milk solids to make "milk," "cream" or "ice cream," thus permitting a normally varied menu. But this was a matter of taste and convenience, not medical necessity. The ordinary commercial oils, say Drs. Page and Brown, "are excellent for cooking and baking"; also, "two or three teaspoons added to each serving of a low-fat food convert it to a satisfying, flavorful product." Large appetites...
Medical students with normal blood patterns were fed the cottonseed oil diet from the clinic's kitchens for three weeks, and showed consistent drops in their circulating cholesterol-a clue as to whether the system is being overloaded with fat. Patients with atherosclerosis-some with diabetes or high blood pressure, and some who had already had heart attacks-were kept on the diet for as long as eight months, usually with home cooking. In every case their abnormally high cholesterol levels showed a gratifying drop...