Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radioactive isotopes are taking jobs in peacetime industry. Last week the California Research Corp. (a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California) and the Atomic Energy Commission told now radioactive piston rings are being used to test the performance of lubricating oil...
...wants one of the dangerous rings, he takes it out of the cave on the end of a three-foot stick. Working carefully, with special tools, skilled mechanics fit the ring onto the piston of a test engine. After the engine has run for a few hours, its lubricating oil becomes radioactive because of "hot" iron rubbed off the ring...
...little as one-millionth of an ounce of metal can be detected in the oil. The scientists can tell by measuring the oil's radioactivity just how much the ring has worn-and therefore how efficient the oil...
PERCY CRAIG SPENCER, 55, a lawyer turned oil executive, took over the presidency of Sinclair Oil Corp., succeeding aging (72) Founder Harry F. Sinclair, who was ready to leave responsibility to younger men. "Spence" Spencer, born in Jasper, N.Y., graduated as a lawyer from the University of Nebraska and became general counsel of Producers & Refiners Corp. in 1927. When it merged with Sinclair in 1934, Spencer went along. Said Harry Sinclair (who becomes board chairman) : "No changes in major policies are to be anticipated...
Furthermore, one of the biggest drops in carloadings had been in coal, which provides the biggest single source of railroad freight (14%). Thus, the more oil-burning diesels the roads bought, the more they would cut their coal revenues...