Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President also found time to sit three times for an oil portrait showing him in all the regalia to which he is entitled as a Master Mason of the 33rd degree: silk hat, apron, heavy rings on his fingers. When the picture is finished, it will occupy a place of honor in the Masonic Grand Lodge at St. Louis...
Meat exports were declining alarmingly. Because the government had dillydallied with new export rules, trading in hides and skins had all but stopped. Miranda had priced linseed oil right out of the export market. To save its vanishing dollar exchange, the government was even making it hard for immigrants to send money home to Europe (contrary to the immigration treaties with Italy and Spain...
...more dollars out of the U.S. is merely a waste of time." What Argentina should do, he told a meeting of provincial finance ministers, was to buy outside the dollar circuit, as it was already doing in the case of newsprint (from Finland) and of oil (from the sterling area). As for the U.S., it was buying Argentine products at the rate of $200 million a year; henceforth Argentina would limit its buying of U.S. goods to that same figure. Cried Miranda: "We are going to play our role of buyer to the hilt...
...three weeks, white-thatched Jesse Jones had managed to avoid testifying on some 1941 oil deals. A doctor's affidavit averred that Jones had coronary heart disease, suffered from attacks of "paroxysmal auricular fibrillation," and was in no condition to appear in court. But the plaintiff countered with an affidavit of his own. The night the medical statement was received, he claimed, Jesse had sat up until 2 in the morning playing poker with the boys, and drinking "large quantities of whiskey." The stakes ranged high, and once Jesse "backed a straight in a pot involving . . . $4,000 against...
...vacuum--ton one-billionths of an atmosphere--is one of the highest ever made in a a large container. Oil diffusion pumps produced it in the cyclotron's main chamber...