Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting ready for the campaign, the Democratic National Committee ordered copies of the official Truman campaign picture. It is a reproduction of an oil portrait painted last spring by a New York artist, Greta Kempton. It shows the President without the trace of a grin...
...Harry Truman made the White House as comfortable as possible for his guests last week-a cozy 74°. In some Government buildings temperatures, by presidential order, went no higher than 68°. There was plenty of coal for the Executive Mansion; a few federal buildings are heated by oil, and oil was hard to get (see BUSINESS...
...Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), which has a synthetic-fuel pilot plant at Baton Rouge, is placing its long-run major bet on gasoline from coal. This week, Standard and the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. broke ground at Library, Pa. for their pilot plant to gasify coal. The next step, a fairly simple one, will be to make petroleum from the gas. Said E. V. Murphree, president of the Standard Oil Development Co.: "Enough oil can be made from the nation's known coal reserves, alone, to last the U.S. for 1,000 years...
...National Cotton Council of America. In the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel last week, a huge banner carried the legend: "Why Is Margarine Singled Out for Discrimination? No Other Product Is." And much of the talk among the 800 cotton men was of margarine. The reason: margarine, made chiefly of cottonseed oil, is worth $80 million a year to cotton planters. Planters thought that they could easily sell twice as much cottonseed oil if only Congress would repeal the high tax, lobbied through by dairy farmers, on the sale of colored margarine...
...that they had a legitimate grievance. Coloring is common in other foods; even butter is often colored. But the cotton planters had always lacked enough political support to outlobby the Midwest dairymen. At their convention, the planters sealed a pact with representatives of Midwest soybean farmers, who sell soybean oil to margarine makers. With Southern Democrats to support cotton men and soybean farmers pressuring Midwest Congressmen, planters thought they had a good chance to get the tax killed. Cried white-haired Charles G. Henry, council chairman of the margarine committee: "We are finally going to beat this bunch of reactionary...