Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They had plotted and carried out antiBritish riots and killings in Palestine a decade ago. Early in 1941, when Britain's war fortunes were at lowest ebb, they had sparked revolt in Iraq. A slippery guerrilla, Fawzi harassed the British for months with desert forays against their vital oil pipelines. When British fortunes turned, the Mufti and Fawzi got away separately to Germany...
Bright spots remained. Output of electrical energy had hit an alltime high, glass production again was normal. Belgium's rich Congo Colony piled up lush foreign exchange by exporting annually up to 5 billion francs' worth of copper, palm oil, diamonds and secret quantities of uranium ore (of which Belgians believe the Congo contains half the world's known supply...
...cell floor. But when other prisoners marched by, he rose, put on his coat and stuck a flower in his buttonhole to show them he was still all right. He collects colonial paintings, admires Harold Laski, and says he is so healthy he can "eat bricks fried in automobile oil...
Photographs of Edouard's paintings which reached the U.S. last week had a child's freshness, and also a strength that was not at all boyish. Edouard, painting in oil, spread the pigment in broad, thick strokes that gave a sense of third dimension. For subject matter he used what appealed to his wide eyes: lobsters, a landscape framed in the window, flowers, a teapot, and, lately, his mother...
Died. Colonel Robert Wright Stewart, 80, major in the Rough Riders, onetime board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, who was ousted by John D. Rockefeller Jr. after his acquittal of charges of contempt and perjury in the Teapot Dome investigation; in Miami Beach...