Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schedule in mid-1946, the first through train in eight years made the Canton-Hankow run. By November, Director Tu had three expresses going each week. Now he has one daily leaving both north and south terminals. In half a year passenger and freight (rice, relief goods, tung oil, coal) mileage has doubled. Along the right of way, at every station, aswarm with people on the move, and ashrill with vendors of rice, cabbage, noodles and pig's ears, you can see a region's economic life, however shabby and stunted by American standards, stirring out of torpor...
...Dakar); 2) the Panama Canal. With the consent of the interested Governments, bases were constructed in Brazil (Natal, Recife and six other big fields), in Panama (130 temporary bases, spotted around the isthmus), in Ecuador (Salinas, near Guayaquil, and the Galapagos Islands); in northern Peru at Talara, near Standard Oil [N.J.] fields...
...banana belt too, Dictator Somoza has been trying to get right with Spruille Braden. Asked last week about charges that he had tyrannized (and plundered) Nicaragua, he replied: "These little countries are like little children. When a boy's sick you've got to force castor oil down him whether he likes it or not. After he's been to the toilet a few times he'll be all right...
Critic Jewell was far beyond the swooning stage. "A few of us," he warned, "incline to rate the new Picassos as little better than disastrous. . . . Picasso, in his recent oil work, may be said to paint vigorously-which isn't being really very explicit, I know. In my opinion his sense of color has grown steadily worse. . . . There remains the matter of distortion, and in that department he moves with the utmost freedom...
Died. Dushon John, 67, "king" of Serbian gypsies in the Western U.S.; of uremia; in Oakland, Calif. During an elaborate, jolly funeral, his money, toothbrush and hair oil were also buried, to see him through the journey into the Beyond...