Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada last week the more optimistic government leaders were certain that Alberta's dilemma would be resolved somehow. For one thing, the problem was closely tied to Canada's dollar-shortage problem: crude-oil imports ($200 million last year) were third on the list of her dollar spending (after coal and industrial machinery). The saving of $200 million would help to meet the dollar deficit. Oil sales in the U.S. would help still more, and Canadians thought that the U.S. would not ignore this fact in its concern for the western world's economic health...
Moreover, Canadian oil could not be overlooked as a big item in U.S.-Canadian defense. The joint defense planners must consider the importance of Alberta's strategically placed fields, and the possibility of their relieving the drain on other oil-rich areas in case...
While Millionaires Bing Crosby and Bob Hope worried what an oil strike by one of their companies near Snyder, Tex. would do to their income taxes, a gusher shot up in the same area for Millionaire Henry Ford...
Last week, 120 teen-agers were hard at work on 550 hilly acres in upstate New York. Boys were digging potatoes, tending 75 dairy cows, painting, sandblasting a new oil storage tank, manufacturing cement blocks for new buildings, remodeling an old lodge into a modern residence hall. Girls were canning home-grown corn, washing & ironing, cooking and serving meals, doing secretarial work. They were the current citizens of the 54-year-old George "Junior Republic" at Freeville, N.Y., and though most of them were trying to make a second start in their young lives, all of them were there...
Such dead-earnest studies as Joel Reeves's shadowy Still Life in Green and Bruno Sepka's oil of a snowed-in tenement district which he called Man's Houses, raised the exhibition's level of technical competence but did nothing to lighten the atmosphere. Minneapolis' Walker Art Center sent six paintings that demonstrated how diversely students in a progressive art school will advance. They ranged from Reginald Anderson's Figures, a spiky, thin-air abstraction, to Roland Thompson's carefully realistic Culvert. William Chaiken's patchwork Tryst at the Fountain...