Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator called in reporters, baldly announced that he had sent General Brad ley a "virtual ultimatum" to take over a 750-bed Army hospital in Okmulgee, a small Oklahoma oil town. The hospital is not fireproof, and it is within 37 miles of another Veterans' Hospital (prewar, pork-barrel style) in another small town, Muskogee. VA plans call for a new 1,000-bed building in Oklahoma City. But the Senator was looking for a fight. "If the VA does not take this hospital over," he said, "I will ask why when they come before the Senate for more...
...background of this explosion were 1) Moscow, 2) oil. Ever since the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) curtly rejected Russia's claim for oil rights in northern Iran and forbade any Government to negotiate such rights till after the war (TIME, Dec. 18, 1944), Russia had been needling the Iranian Government. The Azerbaijan revolt looked like the substitution of action for frustrated diplomacy...
...rich-with a $10 million endowment, 33 ,new buildings, most of them handsome Georgian brick, and a faculty that has almost tripled. Exonians credit Dr. Perry's fund-raising talent for the school's prosperity. And in fact the biggest gift ($5 million) came from the late oil millionaire, Edward S. Harkness, benefactor of Harvard and Yale, who was no Exonian-just a friend of Perry's. His other friends include hundreds of alumni and parents, students-who see less of him now than their predecessors did-and his grandchildren, who call...
...ceilings do not include excise taxes, transportation costs or slight increases which may yet be granted for engineering changes, extra-heavy bumpers, defrosters, and oil filters. The customer will still pay more for his car than the OPA prices indicate...
...Boston's Gillette Safety Razor Co. announced a 15% increase in the basic 40-hour rate for its 2,700 employes, as it cut its 48-hour work week to 44. Net result: a 2% increase in take-home pay. ¶ Standard Oil Co. of California handed out a 15% raise for 16,000 office and refinery workers, as it returned to the 40-hour week...