Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle East? This was the biggest problem of all. If King Farouk doubted that Russia had any such interests, his brother-in-law, Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi, could quickly undeceive him. Scarcely three months ago Russia had overturned a Teheran government that refused the Kremlin oil concessions in Iran (TIME, Nov. 20). And at 25, King Farouk was politically old enough to know that the question of Russia was related to the permanent problem of Egypt's ragged, underfed population. Most of them had never seen a Russian in their lives. But why had they taken...
...harming the stouter stalks of crop plants, costs only one-tenth as much as hoeing. ¶ Calcium cyanamide. This chemical, long used as fertilizer, has recently proved a potent weed destroyer when applied to the soil in extra-heavy doses before planting. Chief users so far: tobacco growers. ¶Oil. California vegetable growers who have tried spraying the soil with a light oil report it highly effective against weeds in carrot and onion fields. ¶ Borax. In heavy applications, this chemical sterilizes the soil against weeds for two years, has given promising results on railway roadbeds and highway shoulders...
...Oils. The oil industry alone still had the Midas touch. Wall Streeters guessed: industry profits were up about 25% in 1944 over 1943. As an example, they pointed to Atlantic Refining Co. It netted $14,700,000, up 37%. Unlike the rest of U.S. industry, the big oil companies can still increase profits with volume because refineries, for example, are largely automatic, cost little more to run at capacity than...
...substance, the N.F.T.C. plan is simi ar to those advanced by such poles-apart individuals as Standard Oil Co. (N.J.)'s conservative chairman, Ralph W. Gallagher, and New Dealing Milo Perkins. What was new in the Council's plan was the implication that the time has come for Congress to clarify U.S. policy on cartels, rather than leave it to definition by liti ious Attorney General Francis Biddle...
...bought the Mobeley Hotel in Cisco, Tex., on the eve of the Texas oil boom. This deal set the future Hilton pattern-step in when the boom is starting and the property value low, make it pay, unload at the peak. He applied this pattern to a long series of small Texas and New Mexico hotels, putting the profits of one into the purchase price of the next...