Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolivia went a strip of the western Chaco, the border drawn so that it keeps Paraguay 100 miles away from Bolivia's rich oil fields. Most notable Bolivian gain, however, is a gateway to the sea through the Paraguay River. Ever since the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), in which Chile defeated the combined Peruvian-Bolivian armies, Bolivia has sat in her Andean aerie without a handy water outlet for her tin, silver and oil. Between Bolivia and the Pacific there were 75 miles of none-too-friendly Chile. The final arbitration in 1929 of the Tacna-Arica...
...months every year the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, at other times a statue-stuffed monument to the late steel-master, becomes the world's most comprehensive salon of oil painting. The Carnegie International Exhibition, assembled with shrewd relish by the Institute's Director of Fine Arts Homer Saint-Gaudens, costs the estate of Andrew Carnegie about $40,000 a year, enlists the services of scouts in no less than ten European countries. Last month an international jury† spent two days picking eight prizewinners out of 365 paintings by U.S. and European artists; last fortnight all the paintings...
From the livers of fresh-killed dogs, lambs and pigs they extracted a sterol (solid alcohol) which they dissolved in sesame oil. Then they artificially lengthened the clotting period of rats and dogs by tying up their bile ducts. Small amounts of the sterol were injected under the skins of the rats, into the veins of the dogs. Normal rats and dogs were also injected. Before and after injections the scientists measured the coagulation time of each animal by drawing a drop of blood from a vein onto a glass plate exposed...
...dank, smelly meadows of Linden, N.J. are pimpled with an enormous collection of oil tanks-30 belonging to Sinclair, 175 to Cities Service, 800 to Standard Oil of New Jersey-huddled closely around one of the largest U.S. refineries (Standard's). One day last week a Cities Service tank of ethyl gasoline blew up with force enough to toss its top 150 yards. A flaming geyser of 1,680,000 gallons of gasoline in a few minutes was splattering a dozen other tanks. By midnight 18 tanks had collapsed into a scarlet pool of blazing oil. Watchers got scorched...
...fully insured Cities Service, the fire was chiefly an inconvenience. To the petroleum industry at large it was something of a blessing-for at least 119,047 barrels of gas and oil were consumed, thus reducing the tremendous inventories which overhung the market...