Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captured at Bataan, described Captain Tokoda's medieval brews. Into tubercular men he injected an acid mixed with infected bile. Once he squeezed a milk of ground soy beans into the jugular veins of two men. All died. Into the bloodstreams of others he injected mixtures of castor oil and sulphur, of acid, ether and blood plasma. Despite all this, Shinagawa was regarded as a "showplace" and was proudly exhibited to visiting Jap generals...
...Hurley would not think of letting the Communist leader ride in the limousine provided by the Generalissimo. He hustled Mao into his own black Cadillac. As they drove off, the high-spirited Oklahoma diplomat, whose Choctaw war whoops are the delight of Asia, yelled to the astonished crowd: "Olive oil! Olive oil...
Knee-deep in Louisiana oil and politics, he and Huey Long used to get together for talkfests that often lasted until 4 a.m. Then Helis got interested in racing. He laid $525,000 on the line to save New Orleans' Fair Grounds track from being auctioned. Because fashionable stables bypassed the Fair Grounds for the Florida and California tracks, he decided to stock the Fair Grounds with fast horses...
Helis has delegated to younger men the management of his tugboat fleet, distillery, oil wells and mines. Racing (and winning) keeps him so busy that he has even had to put off an urgent stomach operation...
...Netherlands would like $115 million for domestic reconstruction; the Netherlands East Indies is negotiating a loan to rebuild its rubber plantations and oil refineries...