Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes for advice to Commodore Lewis L. Strauss, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., now a naval reservist and a bitter anti-regular; to exuberant Reserve Captain Luis de Florez, onetime consulting engineer to several oil companies, who is responsible for most of the Navy's special training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer...
...practical Hollanders exploited the archipelago as one vast plantation, funneling its pepper, coffee, rubber, tin, oil and cinchona bark into world trade instead of their own, less voracious home market. They neither westernized nor Christianized the old (mainly Mohammedan) cultures. They did not get around to abolishing slavery until just before the U.S. did, gave the Indonesians no voice in government until this century...
...addition to oil, Anglo-Norwegian whalers hunting near their home ports hope to bring back whale meat for butcher shops, boast that a new method of quick freezing makes it as tender and tasty as beef...
...Whaling? Already counting on getting 150,000 tons of whale oil this season (worth $27,000,000 at present prices), whalers hope to have a $30,000,000-a-year business before many years have passed. They intend to ask, at the meeting next month, for a relaxation of the international whaling agreement, which now restricts kills to 16,000 blue-whale units (two fin whales, or two and a half humpbacks are counted as one blue-whale unit). They argue that with fewer ships, tight restrictions are no longer necessary...
...best as a "residual insecticide." It stays on a treated surface for several weeks or even months, killing most insects which come in contact with it. But a good strong treatment is necessary. Oil solutions or water emulsions for residual spraying should contain at least 5% DDT. Weaker solutions do not leave enough of the stuff behind...