Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian exports could undoubtedly expand. Best guess in Washington for Russian exports to all countries in the first five postwar years: half a billion yearly. The U.S., which never took 5% of Russian exports, might in future get as much as 40%, or $200 million worth of coal, metal, oil, wood products (particularly pulp), etc. But this is a highly iffy estimate that includes the if of lower U.S. tariffs...
...issued his report: "This fire left nothing but twisted, tumbled-down rubble in its path. . . . The area totally destroyed . . . covers a total of 422,500,000 square feet, which is approximately 9,700 acres, or 15 square miles." Half a dozen key installations such as railroad stations and oil plants were destroyed, as well as "hundreds of small business establishments directly concerned with the war industry, many important administrative buildings and other thousands of home industries...
...styles, the show leaned to the progressive, contained few echoes of war, political plumping, or the soap-box exhortations fashionable a decade ago. There were elaborate, anything-but-immaculate conceptions which for untutored eyes might just as well have hung upside down. There were shaky, stuttering labors-in-oil by artists known chiefly to their immediate families, friends and critic-sponsors. There were also sober, estimable paintings by artists like Alexander Brook, John Carroll, Walt Kuhn, Raphael Soyer. Sample critics and choices...
...foreign countries, U.S. citizens own industrial plants, oil refineries, plantations, mines and other properties, in which they have invested $13.3 billion. But by last week, when the National Foreign Trade Council released a tabulation of these investments by countries, a lot of the value had gone. The N.F.T.C. listed nearly $4 billion of U.S. property in Axis, or Axis-controlled countries, of which $1.3 billion was in Germany, $90 million in Japan...
Most curious is the neglect of opportunities which, one would think, must have made Dorian seem a tempting movie to make in the first place: the ways in which terror might have been inspired, and a story told, through letting an audience watch an animated oil painting change before its eyes. Even when murder is committed in the same room with the picture, you are not allowed to see red paint sweating forth on the fingers; the camera waits till the crime is complete, then comes back and finds it there. Reverence for literature often goes hand in hand with...