Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zinc Trap. In Brooklyn, 280-pounder Bertha Singer found herself stuck in the bathtub, was wrenched by her son, tugged by a police emergency squad, lubricated with cooking oil, after 17 hours was pried...
...consequently being run over constantly by omnibuses and motor-lorries." In the mechanized 20th Century, the land bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa is busier than ever. Now it is not only a military highway and a vast airfield. It flanks the Suez Canal. Its soil is crossed by oil; 42% of the world's proved oil reserves are puddled below the deserts of Iraq, Persia and Saudi Arabia. One of the vital pipelines from the British-controlled Iraq fields stretches across Palestine to Haifa. A convenience in peacetime, the pipelines are a vital necessity in wartime. Britain...
Field Marshal Viscount Harold Alexander, Governor General of Canada and leisure-hour painter, celebrated the joys of his hobby in the British Magazine. "As exciting as . . .hunting or stalking," said he. Among the high-ranking pleasures of oil paint: the "delicious smell." Confessed the Field Marshal: "I have fought many battles, and . . . generally been able to see. . . how the battle would develop, but when I am faced with a large white canvas. . . I suffer badly from...
National Hour (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). "Oil: Our Deepest Frontier." A dramatized survey of past regrets and future fears about U.S. oil...
American Anglo-Transvall, will operate on a partnership basis with the Anglo-Transvaal Consolidated Investment Co., Ltd., a $32 million holding company, one of the most active in South Africa. American Anglo-Transvaal will supply the cash; Anglo-Transvaal (with active subsidiaries in steel, oil, glass, coal, lumber, manganese) will provide the knowhow...