Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could get supervising jobs, only 54% of 552 administrative and supervising employes are registered Democrats. Harry H. Ball, an active Republican, told friends he had been promised a job if he would make his affidavit, is now employed by State Republican Finance Chairman Joseph N. Pew's Sun Oil...
...Well, I've said enough; but, in pure Australian slang I'll sum up by saying, 'the studies stoushed Amherst, chased the Bruins up a gum tree, and showed that they had the dinkum oil by playing dinki-di football.' Translating this into the King's English (or--in this country of alphabetical politics--into FDR English) this means that the Harvard squad won two victories by playing good football. Now for the Army...
Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
Last year U. S. manufacturers consumed 91,166,000 lb. of soybean oil, of which 2,550,000 lb. went into soaps, 4,800,000 lb. into linoleum and oilcloth, 13,000,000 lb. into paints and varnishes...
...years growing them, finding out how they could be used. Few months ago the River Rouge works got a $5,000,000 addition in the shape of a soy-bean processing plant. Into Ford cars at present go the product of some 60,000 acres of soybeans. The oil goes into glycerine for shock-absorbers, enamel for body finishes, binder for foundry cores. The meal, turned into plastics, rolls off the assembly line as horn buttons, gearshift knobs, window-trims, distributor cases...