Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making open beaches almost as useful as ports. U.S. Navy specialists performed it in building up Cherbourg's shattered port to a capacity far greater than in peacetime. Army engineers performed it on the beaches and close behind the battle line. Loaders, repair men, railroad men, truck drivers, oil men, flyers stretched that far-flung performance farther & farther as the front advanced...
...land. "The rapid progress of recent Chinese immigration into Manchuria is almost unparalleled," he stated. "And Manchuria remains a veritable pioneer region--the area of its arable land still can be doubled, and so can its population. The potential values of the natural resources--iron ore, coal, timber, and oil shale--of the Manchurian hill lands in their relation to post-war industrialization are almost incalculable...
...fighters in the west now concentrated on Germany itself. Day & night, railroad centers behind the West Wall and industries in central Germany took 1,000-plane doses of bad medicine-all the bad medicine which western Europe had previously had to share. Over Leipzig, while 1,000 bombers bashed oil plants, 800 U.S. fighters got a record battle's bag of 175 German planes. In two days of good hunting fighters destroyed 262 planes aground, 34 aloft...
...Wall Street, talk of a 40% cut in war production after Germany falls sent stocks crashing. Biggest losers were the rails, steel and oil shares. New York Central dropped 1⅛, U.S. Steel 3 points...
...prolong penicillin's stay in the blood, Army Captain Monroe James Romansky and Technician (4th Grade) George E. Rittman suspend the drug in a mixture of beeswax and peanut oil and inject it into a muscle. They find that the suspension maintains a good level in the blood for six or seven hours after injection and keeps appearing in the urine up to 32 hours. The drug is extracted from the urine with banana oil, from the banana oil with a special phosphate solution...