Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from its first postwar cruise to the antarctic was Britain's whaling fleet of three great "factory ships." Instead of the 75,000 tons of whale oil which Britain's Food Ministry had hoped for, they carried 40,000 tons. And they brought other bad news: whales were hardly more numerous than before...
...same weeks the spectre of wheat and meat shipments has forced important oil and rubber concessions out of Peru, a customs union out of Bolivia, and has brought the Peron-sponsored candidates into a favored position in the coming Uruguayan elections. The U.S. may propose hemisphere military cooperation, but unless it supplements surface collaboration with effective economic opposition to Peron, the vital Spanish-speaking belt will be lost to American leadership as it is forced into the orbit of the power state below the Mar Del Plata. The past conduct of the Argentine government during the war is ample illustration...
...hours hacienda cola (sweating out the line) outside butcher shops. Last week, as a result of Argentine manipulations, the wheat stocks were down to a thin ten days' supply when the U.S. freighter Bert Williams brought in a timely 7,900 tons. Perón was after Peruvian oil, rubber, cotton-and an Argentina-oriented Peru...
C.I.O.'s wild-riding cavalry was galloping toward the outworks of the South's weakly organized mass industries: oil, textiles, lumber, chemicals, steel. A.F. of L.'s slower moving infantry hoped to bulge through the same defenses with less show, more power. Said William Green's order...
...University of Pennsylvania told how science has learned these signs and put them to use. First to interpret the bee law of dance and scent was Professor Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich. Near a hive he placed a square of cardboard perfumed with bergamot oil, and on it a dish full of sugar syrup. Fifty yards away he arranged a row of cards. None offered syrup, but each had a different scent. One was oil of bergamot...