Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cushion to Fall On. The trimming went deep. It caught the big operators as well as most of the small farmers. Oklahoma's oil-rich Governor Roy Turner, a breeder of registered Herefords, swallowed hard when his best bull brought only $6,100 at his annual sale last week. Last year his top animal fetched $25,000. Montana's "Wheat King," Thomas Campbell, who said three months ago that he was holding all of his 610,000 bushels, said last week that the wise farmer would still hold on; there might be a pickup in prices because demand...
Canadian officials felt their teeth on edge every time they heard Wherry honing his hatchet and demanding their economic scalps. They knew there was good U.S. political ammunition in the Wherry cry to cut off shipments of coal and oil to Canada while New England homes went unheated, and to cut off steel exports while U.S. construction was slowed by material shortages...
Professor Elliott referred to the Jews and Arabs as "merely pawns." The Arab nation may be the oawns of British policy and Angle-American oil interests. The Jews were pawns of Hitler, not of Karl Marx. Mendy Weisgal '45, 2G. Vice-Chairman, Harvard Zionist Society
...Homeowners installed 820,000 oil burners in 1947, bringing the U.S. total to 3,757,000. Beyond that, 1,500,000 portable kerosene stoves were sold...
...oil industry plans to improve and expand production facilities one-third by a $4 billion investment. But Jersey's Holman pointed out last week that steel was still the big bottleneck. Steel is needed for casings for new wells, for new refineries, for pipelines and for tank cars to haul the product. Until that bottleneck is cracked, the U.S. will have to make do with present production...