Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remaining stocks of raw materials, particularly steel and aluminum, are tremendous. If Germany was short of anything, except oil, it has not yet been discovered. In Bonn alone, the Army estimated that there are 300,000 tons of aluminum-roughly the amount of U.S. production in 1941. In another plant, 1,000,000 tons of steel were stocked. Said an open-mouthed Army officer: "I'd believe anything you told me on the amount of aluminum they...
Using penicillin dissolved in water, treatment was gradually worked down to three hypodermic injections two hours apart. Then came the discovery, announced last year (TIME, Sept. 11), that penicillin mixed with beeswax and peanut oil is disseminated slowly through the body, keeping the penicillin content of blood high for hours. The Public Health Service acted swiftly. To 137 doctors throughout the land went instructions and the penicillin mixture with the request that they try single injections of 200,000 units (2 cc.) on as many patients as possible and report the results. Back came results on 1,060 cases: over...
Actually there were no signs last week of a stockmarket boom. Investors were still able to find stocks in Wall Street that yield 4 to 6% in dividends. Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) sold at $63 a share compared to a 1939 top of $53.50, although Chairman Ralph W. Gallagher told stockholders that profits for the first six months of 1945 might run higher than the $71 million ($2.60 a share) earned in the same period last year.' And General Electric Co.'s President Charles Edward Wilson has repeatedly said that G.E.'s postwar annual gross sales...
Died. Tom C. Geraghty, 62, veteran scenarist and ex-head of the OWI's Holly wood bureau; in Hollywood. Connected with many a foreign film, he once did a historical picture for Mussolini, was paid off one-fifth in cash, four-fifths in olive oil...
...happiness restored to us, not through a new spiritual rebirth, but through a plain and simple return [to the Eastern conviction that] what makes a human being happy is to feel himself wanted and understood and appreciated. The fabulous courtesy of the East is not a ritual, but simply oil to grease the machinery of human relationships. The people of the East need from us the physical aids . . . science to heal diseased bodies and to remove a crushing labor and to provide more food. We are like men digging . . . through a mountain...