Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railroader (20? a copy, $2 a year), last year sent a questionnaire to no less than 6,000 known aficionados of the hobby in the U. S. Editor and publisher of The Model Railroader and leader of the association is Albert Carpenter Kalmbach, who in actual practice would never oil his model locomotives with the full-sized, long-snouted railroad oil can he posed with at Detroit (see cut). When Albert Kalmbach was five years old he made such a remarkable drawing of a locomotive that his teacher thought he was lying when he claimed it as his work. Naturally...
...30th floor of Chicago's Board of Trade Building is a door with the legend MR. AUGUST KOCHS. Inside is a large suite whose three main features are Mr. Kochs himself, his secretary for 30 years, stout, clamp-lipped Miss Millie Bott, and a small oil painting of an alchemist by a 19th-Century German named Eickinger. Mr. Kochs considers the painting "appropriate" for he is himself a chemist of long standing and high success as president of Victor Chemical...
Socony, Texas and Shell oil companies, which have investments in China proper estimated at $42,000,000 in 1931, were faced by the hard fact that they may be ousted if Japan wins, as U. S. oil interests were ousted four years ago from Manchuria. U. S. investments in China total $200,000,000. In shattered Shanghai U. S. investments totaling a major chunk of this were in danger of going down the drain. Sample: the $57,000,000 Shanghai Power Co., subsidiary of American & Foreign Power...
...sold 1,550,000 bales to Japan, his best customer (China bought only 14,000 bales), had already been warned by the Department of Agriculture of the imminent disruption of this market, but for the time being Walgreen Drug Co. was happy over an emergency shipment of cod liver oil, expressed to the war zone by Clipper...
Meanwhile tea. anise, antimony, Perilla oil and galangal root, all imported from the Orient, rose in price. So did tungsten. Some 60% of this rare, whitish-grey metal comes from China. Technically known as wolfram, tungsten has a higher melting point than any other known metal (6,000° F.), is used in electric lamp filaments, radio tubes and high-speed tool steel...