Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These hardy, car hungry souls, unfazed by wear, have scooped up the cream of the 1929 used car mart and buy their oil with a reckless abandon. Thomas it. Morse '48, who operates from Lowell House, pours a quart of oil into his 1922 model T Ford with each gallon of gasoline and loves every minute...
...vicious cycles. For want of soda ash, glass makers have been forced to cut down drastically; for want of glass bottles, dairies in New York and elsewhere have been forced to cut down on deliveries of milk, which is somewhat short for want of cows. For want of castor oil, used as brake and shock absorber fluid, automakers could not roll out all the cars they had hoped to deliver. For want of nails to make curing racks. Georgia farmers this year were threatened with the loss of half of their $57,000,000 peanut crop...
From the bleak jargon of real estate listings, it was hard to recognize the old place: "A twelve-story brick and limestone hotel building equipped with steam heat (oil burner), hot water . . . two Otis drum elevators . . . three dining rooms, bar and 143 rentable units...
...tone. As a small businessman in Charleston, S.C., and onetime head of a firm dealing in home bottling supplies, he had had a run-in with federal authorities during Prohibition. Result: a $25 fine for violating the dry law. Next Bodne tried the coal business, then he started wholesaling oil. He cut no fancy figure; in Charleston he was regarded as very small potatoes. But Bodne hinted that he had made a killing in war contracts, claimed that he had sold his deep-water oil terminal for $200,000. And he laid cash on the line to buy the Algonquin...
...long statement on Mexico's oil problem last week, President-elect Miguel Aleman omitted such comments but hinted that mismanaged Pemex was due for drastic overhaul. It was gossiped that Pemex was losing $100,000 a day; it teemed with high-salaried, incompetent political lame ducks; it was constantly in trouble with labor. And in eight years it had failed to fit the oil industry into the domestic economy. It was still geared for export. Its pipelines ran down to the sea instead of to home markets in the big inland cities. A new refinery outside Mexico City would...