Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turnout for services was better, too. "We're running 35 to 45 worshipers at Fletcher on Sunday, 65 at Ebenezer and 50 at Pimento . » The three district churches had raised more than $2,000 for such improvements as the Ebenezer's new electric organ, an oil furnace and wallpaper for the parsonage...
...popular, "common sense" notion that well-fed people are most likely to keep healthy is not necessarily true. Recent research shows that the common diseases of childhood are no more prevalent among poorly fed children than among children stuffed with spinach, fruit and fish-oil vitamins. Research also shows that well-fed adults suffer as much as anyone else from the common cold and influenza...
Minnesota, which claimed the largest state-fair art show in the country, gave its first prize in oils to a poster-slick abstraction of a stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine...
...other hand, the huge U.S. oil industry, which had thought last spring that the boom was over, changed its mind. The vast production of new cars, diesel engines, oil heaters, etc. had swelled oil demand so much that the U.S. Bureau of Mines forecast greater demand this year than last. The bright outlook caused oil shares to pace the recent stock market upswing. The market got a new lift this week from the prospect of a settlement of the steel wage dispute (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the first day's trading, steel shares gained as much as a point...
...rheumatoid arthritis. A long telephone extension permits him to conduct business right from the pool. From there, Odium this year has been reshuffling Atlas' holdings to tighten up control and to trim expenses. Last week, as Atlas announced plans to combine two of its biggest properties, Barnsdall Oil and Ogden Corp., into the Barnsdall Oil Co., Odium reported that the asset value of Atlas shares was again on the increase. During the first half of this year, asset value dropped from $27.18 a share to $26.27, mostly because Atlas was selling off department-store and liquor shares. But, having...