Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Africa. Discovered in 1482, Angola came into prominence in the 19th Century when colonists built up a lucrative slave trade, exporting Angola's Bantu blacks to Brazil. When slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1830, colonists gradually turned to agriculture, began to produce coffee, sugar, maize, palm oil, sisal. Meanwhile, at home, Portugal was in a mess. With two exceptions, budgets were unbalanced for three-quarters of a century and between 1910 and 1926 the nation went through 18 revolutions, some 40 changes of government. Finally in 1926 the army took control, later set up a dictatorship. Prime force...
...Yale University's Medical School, two years ago, Biologist Leonell Clarence Strong fed oil of wintergreen to laboratory mice with cancerous tumors of the breast. Some of the tumors melted away. The thing that did the trick was the active principle of wintergreen oil, heptyl aldehyde, a fragrant, colorless liquid. With the help of his colleague, Leon Fradley Whitney, Dr. Strong then set to work on dogs. In last week's Science the biologists revealed the following promising results: injection of small amounts of fresh heptyl aldehyde under the skin of ten dogs with various types of spontaneous...
...acting under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and quoting Mr. Zukor's words, brought suit against him and almost every other bigwig in the cinema business. But, vast as this trust-busting procedure appeared, it was no New Deal crackdown in the manner of those launched against the oil, aluminum and automobile-finance businesses. Instead, in an unprecedented apology and explanation attached to its complaint, the Government took the manner of a family dentist remarking, as he starts extracting a sore tooth from a small boy's jaw, "I am sorry if this hurts...
...Fined 17 of the 46 defendants found guilty of conspiracy to fix gasoline prices in the Madison oil trials last January. Federal Judge Patrick Stone fined twelve companies and five individuals an aggregate of $65,000, let ten individuals and one company go scot-free, offered a new trial for 15 individuals and three companies. Those fined immediately appealed...
...able Adman Francisco, head of Lord & Thomas' San Francisco office for 17 years, has built up such lucrative accounts as California Fruit Growers Exchange (Sunkist), The All-Year Club of Southern California and Californians, Inc. (tourists). He has also advertised Southern Pacific Co., the Dollar Steamship Lines, Union Oil Co. of California...