Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then he has been a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I, a chemist in the U.S. Bureau of Mines (where he helped develop a new way to extract radium), research director of both Standard Oil of Indiana and General Printing Ink Corporation, a professor at the University of Chicago, dean at Penn State, and Director of Science and Education for the New York World's Fair...
...Settled once & for all the fact that Interior Secretary Harold Ickes will stay in the Cabinet, dispatched him to London for a forthcoming conference on Middle East oil...
Three-Year Splurge. Greek-born Willie Helis, now 58, arrived in the U.S. 41 years ago with $22 in his jeans. He learned to sleep with a diamond-tipped oil drill locked around his neck, and eventually hit the jackpot. He now owns more oil wells than he has time to count, has spent up to $3,800 on a single evening's fling, smokes two dozen $1.50 cigars daily...
Fuel. Army releases end the threat of a real crisis, but the Solid Fuels Administration reports the shortage may continue to some extent. Fuel oil should be no problem, unless transport makes...
...railroad system is heavily damaged. Port facilities for the most part are ready for use. once the mines are removed. The oil and chemical industries are pretty well smashed. So are public utilities-electricity, telephone and telegraph, water supplies, streetcar and bus systems. Steel mills and shipyards are damaged, but probably in better shape than most Americans think. The bombing program never called for complete destruction of the steel industry; the Japs were deliberatelv allowed to waste manpower on ships which were sunk as soon as they took to the seas. Long accustomed to disaster, the Japs themselves may well...