Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading for anyone trying to figure out how Russia will behave on the world stage in the next few years. By 1950, if the present plan is completely fulfilled, each Russian will still have less sugar than in 1913, less beef and mutton than in 1929, less soap and oil than in 1937, less pork than in 1938, less living space, shoes & stockings than...
...leprosarium authorities, leper leader Maung Kyaw Thu laid down demands to be met "immediately": 1) improve the wretched diet; 2) reduce working hours of inmates (now six hours daily); 3) step up injection treatments of chaulmoogra oil to the prewar level...
...better policy. Similarly, the United States has shown no readiness to submit her control of Pacific bases or the Panama Canal to international control without a veto. And Great Britain would be offended if it was suggested that the UN have final say over her sea and oil bases in the Middle East...
Fantastic Nonsense? To the bidders, this seemed like 1) nonsense and 2) the biggest of all WAA's blunders. Snorted Oilman Smith: "Fantastic." Actually, the Army-Navy board told WAA last month that it had no preference as to oil v. gas. And if WAA was going to permit the lines to be used for gas, then Littlejohn's complaint that bids were too low made little sense. Many of the bidders would gladly have raised their bids considerably if WAA had told them they could pipe gas (gas securities are more readily marketed than oil securities...
Oilman Smith estimated that he could clean out the lines in two weeks, have oil pouring out the Eastern outlets in another two weeks. Their emergency use for gas was out of the question. Reasons: compressor pumps would have to be installed all along some 1,500 miles of pipe, and feeder lines built-a year's job. But, thanks to WAA's latest bungle, there seemed small chance that the pipelines would be used for months, for anything...