Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strengthening and "broadening" of reciprocal trade agreements. ¶Reduction of trade barriers. ¶Control of cartels. ¶ Boosting the capitalization of the Export-Import Bank, which handles loans of U.S. money. ¶An international oil agreement. ¶International agreements on civil aviation, shipping and communication...
...fashion of William Mount's time (1807-1868) was for grandiose historical paintings, like the great John Trumbull's Revolutionary War murals. But Mount, an innkeeper's son who first learned the technique of oil painting from a sign painter, reacted against the fashion: he painted the things he knew and loved in his native Suffolk County, N.Y.-warm, simple scenes of farm and village life, farmhands, ragged schoolboys, Negro slaves...
...record (43,166 ft). Once a pilot gets used to it, it is easier to fly than a fast propeller-driven plane. It is also safer and easier to keep in repair, can use such cheap fuels as kerosene (engineers say it will fly on "anything from coal oil to Napoleon brandy...
Engine Design. Since it has only one moving gear (the compressor and turbine, mounted on the same shaft), the jet en gine needs little oil. The plane needs no warmup, is ready to fly 30 seconds after the motor starts. The pilot, relieved of worries about oil pressure, fuel mixture, propeller pitch, etc., has only three controls to operate: the stick, the throttle and rudder pedals. Test pilots have found the P-59 more maneuverable in the air than a conventional plane. Taxiing on the ground is tricky. Because there is no propeller to blow wind against the tail...
Died. Herbert Lee Pratt, 73, grouse-shooting oil multimillionaire, onetime Socony-Vacuum Board Chairman; of a liver ailment; in Manhattan. Beginning his empire-building career in 1895 as a clerk in Standard Oil, he became a U.S. labor-relations pioneer by pushing pensions, insurance, shorter hours for 45,000 Standard employes...