Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delhi's thousands rejoiced. The town was gay, with orange, white and green. Bullocks' horns and horses' legs were painted in the new national colors, and silk merchants sold tri-colored saris. Triumphant light blazed everywhere. Even in the humble Bhangi (Untouchable) quarters, candles and oil' lamps flickered brightly in houses that had never before seen artificial light. The government wanted no one to be unhappy on India's Independence Day. Political prisoners, including Communists, were freed. All death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. The Government, closing all slaughterhouses, ordered that no animals...
...they did not mark an airport. One of them was the pilot flame in a squat, chimney-like waste-gas furnace, set in a field of oil and gas storage tanks owned by the Colonial Beacon Oil Co. As the plane glided in, it narrowly missed the great, fog-shrouded tanks. A little way beyond, it hit the soft chimney a few feet from the top, disintegrated, threw one body between the chimney's two walls and hurled the others into the pilot flame at the bottom of the pit. Workmen reached through trap doors with steel hooks...
...start of the third heat, only two boats were left seriously in the running: Lombardo's limping Tempo and a Detroit entry which had stayed out of trouble, Miss Peps-V. Lombardo dropped out with a fouled oil line, and Miss Peps finished the winner by quasi-default, a sort of streamlined version of Aesop's tortoise. Miss Peps, however, had not exactly plodded. With a converted Allison engine (from a Lockheed P-38) under her hatch and a converted Army pilot in her cockpit, she had averaged 54.88 m.p.h. Curly-headed Driver Danny Foster finished after being...
...C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther told a Senate committee that the steel industry had embarked on a program of "planned scarcity calculated to enhance profits and to fortify their monopoly." The charge was echoed by Henry Wallace's New Republic: "Despite the fact that other industries such as oil and container manufacturers are crying aloud that their work is hampered by a lack of steel, the steel industry has refused to expand . . . content with current high profits and fearful of another depression...
...station and a grocery store in Oklahoma City. The bigger properties are all under the care of well paid managers, but Autry makes all major decisions himself, passes on many minor ones. Along with royalties from recordings and from, some 40 other products ranging from Gene Autry Hair Oil to cap pistols, his investments will boost his income this year to well over...