Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something. She came from tiny St. Mary's, on the Gulf Coast, and when she was born (in 1881) many an aging Texan still remembered the Alamo. Her father, Cattleman Bob Driscoll, was just beginning to compound his $10 million empire out of equal parts of land and oil and trail-driven herds...
...short. In four years Texas' rich daughter was divorced, back home, back in politics.. Into the abortive effort to make Jack Garner president she threw all her energy and, it was said, $250,000. After Brother Bob Jr. died in 1929, she ruled the family domain of oil fields and ranches all alone. When Hal Sevier died in 1940 she changed her name (to Mrs. Clara Driscoll) but not her fast, energetic pace...
...dashing Lieut. General Sir Leslie ("Holy Terror") Morshead, onetime schoolmaster and hero of the siege of Tobruk, the 7th Division had secured the vital Balikpapan area within three weeks of its invasion. Last week the 7th beat down bitter resistance to take another first-rate military prize: the Sambodja oil field, 28 miles northeast of Balikpapan and one of the three major producing areas of eastern Borneo...
Last week, the deal was made, for cash. For $17 million of his own and his family's money, Landlord Kennedy got the world's largest privately owned office building (two weeks ago, Kennedy bought a 13-story office building from the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in Albany for a rumored $1,800,000 cash...
...spectacular show was staged last week to demonstrate one of the most promising methods yet found for applying the wonder insecticide, DDT. The Todd Shipyards had rigged up an insect-killing version of its Army & Navy smoke-screen generator. The contraption sprays a dry, odorless, stainless cloud of fine oil particles containing a 5% solution of DDT. The fog disappears in a few minutes, leaving a deposit of DDT crystals on everything it touches...