Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ashore on Iwo Jima-an island as menacingly close to Japan's heart as Bermuda is to New York. The war-worn Chinese rallied to take back a section of the hard-won Canton-Hankow railway line. A jungle-trekking British force popped up to menace the conquered oil-field district of Burma. There were more fires than fire brigades, around the Empire; and the alarm bells still clanged...
...Libby method: the drug is suspended in an oil (indigestible by the stomach) and enclosed in a capsule. In the stomach, the capsule dissolves and the penicillin passes into the small intestine in the oil, where it is absorbed by the blood...
...Oil for the lamps of China was sold by first glutting the country with cheap, kerosene-burning lamps. A modern, expensive, but smaller version of this sales device was launched in the U.S. last week when North American Airport Corp. formally opened New York's $4-million, Army-built Westchester County Airport to civilian...
Backed by its rich parent, Gulf Oil Corp., North American outbid three major oil companies for the exclusive right to promote private flying-and the sale of oil and gasoline-at the 505-acre field. For its unprecedented duration-plus-15-years lease, North American plans to pay wealthy, progressive Westchester County some $899,050 in cash. The company will also spend $833,400 for administration, flying school, civic center, hangar and other buildings...
...future profit on those sums, Gulf Oil and North American executives at last week's ceremony needed all the postwar vision they could muster. Their mile-long airstrips, built to handle planes of domestic transport size, were deep in snow. The day's chief speaker, CAA's Deputy Administrator Charles I. Stanton, was scheduled to fly to a dramatic, ribbon-cutting landing at the field. Grounded by the snowstorm, he arrived by train and auto hours late for the dedication...