Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accepted an oil portrait of his mother from the Order of DeMolay...
...first glance Ed Pauley seemed like a doubtful choice-there could not fail to be bitter debate over his heading a department which controls so much of the nation's oil reserves. He knew little about the Navy. But big, energetic Ed Pauley had a broad background of achievement in private life-he had founded an oil company, directed a bank, helped operate a big construction company. And he had done a shrewd, sound job for the President in sizing up the reparations picture in Germany and Japan. Harry Truman liked him and trusted him; but some...
...newcomer said he saw other things: men put through calisthenics which lasted three hours in the morning, three and a half in the afternoon; men found with cigarets, forced to eat them; men asking to go to the latrine, dosed with castor oil. Another allegation: Negroes in the mess hall were forced to crawl and bark like dogs before they were...
...Soviet lake. Of its 2,000-odd miles of coast line, the U.S.S.R. now has about 45%, controls another 15% in Rumania and Bulgaria. The area west to Trabzon would give the U.S.S.R. some 8% more. With bases at the Straits, Russia would run the whole sea. Oil-conscious Russia also dislikes having an uncooperative Turkey right next to her great oil city of Batum and her new oil-rich satellite, Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Ralph W. Gallagher, 64, who started out in the oil industry as a pumping-station oiler at 16, retired as board chairman of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). Into his place went Vice President & Director Frank W. Abrams, 56, who went to work for Standard as a draftsman 33 years ago, made his name as boss of marketing and refining for Standard in the U.S. But a large part of the backbreaking operating job will still be done by Standard's red-faced, drawling President Gene Holman and the rest of Jersey's board of directors...