Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good Christian gentleman." In 1935, as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary, he went to Paris and made an abortive deal with slippery Pierre Laval which sabotaged all efforts to stop Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia (by dismembering the Negus' country and putting the quietus on League oil sanctions...
...Nelson's assistant, tall, dapper Edwin Allen Locke, laid in a supply of head towels and midnight oil and set to work. Within four days & nights he produced the document. On the fifth day he and Don Nelson won Dr. Wong's and Generalissimo Chiang's approval...
...though they have been actually wading through Holland. Their stout workmen-type boots and gum boots have turned out to be drier than anything the U.S. has produced. But the most important factor is that British soldiers are required to keep their boots waxed, to massage their feet with oil and change frequently to dry socks...
...Army's Hammond General Hospital in Modesto, Calif., where ulcer cases are common, he has tried out his ideas on 31 patients who were making no progress on conservative ulcer diets. He gave them additional eggs, olive oil, fresh greens, peanut butter, pills of hog stomach and grass-enough to bring daily diets up to a whopping 4,200 calories. The results, as announced in last week's Military Surgeon: pains of 25 patients stopped in about a week; 17 patients gained an average ten pounds; 22 of the patients recovered completely...
Private business is most alarmed by the fact that cooperatives seem to be able to go into any business and make it pay. Example: the Consumers' Cooperative Association of North Kansas City, Mo., which started on $30,000, now owns 289 oil wells, 867 miles of pipeline, two refineries, two canneries, two sawmills, a feed mill, a soft-drink bottling plant, an insurance agency, a paint factory, etc. Another irritation to private business is the fact that marketing cooperatives are seldom prosecuted under the antitrust laws...