Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control, and residential districts were blacked out in rotation. Mayor David Lawrence took to the radio, announced: "This is a disaster." It might have been much worse-if power had failed completely, the city's milk and water supply would have been cut off, and refrigerators and oil burners would have stopped...
...York City's spasm of paralysis stemmed from a tugboat strike. When barge-borne supplies of fuel oil and coal dwindled dangerously, Mayor William O'Dwyer ordered the world's greatest city to shut down. It took hours to stop the furious pulse of the metropolis. Thousands of commuters milled at Grand Central and Pennsylvania Stations. Despite the hoarse cries of policemen, crowds of women gathered before stores, office workers went as usual to tall buildings. Many a citizen, numbed at the whole idea, simply stood gaping along the sidewalks. By the time the 18-hour...
...been heard, the case of Sergeant Judson H. Smith came to an end. Firelight from an open grate flickered on Smith's grey, lined face as the court president, Colonel Louis P. Leone, announced the verdict: guilty of making prisoners eat excessive amounts of food, of administering castor oil, of two charges of felonious assault and four charges of simple assault (i.e., beatings). The sentence: dishonorable discharge and three years at hard labor...
Died. Dr. Ernst Berl, 68, chemical-warfare specialist for Austria-Hungary in World War I, for the U.S. in World War II, whose process (1940) for converting carbohydrate-containing plants to coal and oil telescoped into a single hour a job that takes nature hundreds of millions of years; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh...
...Estimated 1944 production: 16.5 million tons of steel, 170 million tons of coal, 38 million tons of oil...