Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the continuous V-bombing, oil dumps, barge basins, ship repair facilities-all going full tilt-line the waterfront. A floating generator-supplies the battered port with its power. In the Antwerp Ford plant, still standing, Belgians assemble Army trucks. (The General Motors plant nearby has been demolished...
...corn crop is 22%. Other grains are hard hit, but because of considerable carry-overs Argentina will probably need no imports, although her exports will be drastically reduced. The most serious blow to the world is the loss of almost half of Argentina's linseed oil production...
...cacophony of extreme modernism blew loud in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, which was host last week to "European Artists in America," a show limited to work by 39 Continental refugees. The display ranged all the way from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn...
...America quietly, and suddenly, ended last week. In Manhattan's U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a special panel of three judges, sitting for the U.S. Supreme Court, held that Alcoa was a monopoly. Few years ago this would have been the biggest trust-busting news since Standard Oil was broken up. Now, in the light of war changes in the aluminum industry, it had little more than academic meaning...
...minutes before the Japs arrived, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) engineers had blown up its $30 million refinery at Palembang, Sumatra...