Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orders showed that the commissariats managed to "overfulfill" their total quotas in many cases by grossly underfulfilling certain subsidiary categories. The Commissariat for Food, for example, went over the top as a whole, while insufficiently supplying Russians with sugar, fruit, vegetables, butter and margarine. Coal, electricity and oil went statistically over the top. But last week the Cabinet sweepingly ordered all Soviet organizations to reduce their consumption of coal, electricity and oil by 10%. disclosing a breakdown of planning in the commissariat in which they are pigeonholed...
Discovering an employe earning $3.20 per month and identified only as "Minnie" on the payroll of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey's Bayonne plant, an auditor investigated last week, found that Minnie is a cat which gets $3.20 worth of salmon and milk every month for keeping Standard's testing laboratory free of rats and mice...
...east coast against submarines. Out in civil life again in 1926, he put martial affairs behind him for good, took up exploring. It was while he was self-marooned in a hut at Advance Base, 123-mi. south of Little America three years ago with his now famed defective oil stove, that Sailor Byrd, deathly ill from monoxide poisoning, turned his thoughts full force to peace. Having written his will while maintaining a spuriously cheerful radio contact with his base camp lest men be lost hurrying to his rescue before the polar sun came up, the slight Virginian noted...
...world-something like a camel's hair street sweeper-chunky, grey-haired Raoul Dufy has been standing on a stepladder in an abandoned garage outside Paris for many months, while Jacques Maroger, technical adviser to the Louvre, stood below stirring basins full of pigment, water, alcohol and nut oil with an egg beater...
Whether or not any oldtime panoramas were bigger, Artist Dufy's painting is the biggest something. Already 1,200 Ib. of oil and paint have been spread on 250 separate wooden panels to make a picture 195 ft. long, 30 ft. high which will be the central feature of the Palace of Electricity for the Paris Fair. Already arrangements have been made to remove all the panels and ship them to the U. S. as soon as the Paris Fair closes...