Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windows with adhesive tape, drove office workers out of the upper floors of high buildings, gave some panicky citizens the idea that the city was being subjected to a gas attack. It turned out to be a gas called S-Ethyl-Thiouracil, which had been blown to sea from oil refineries, then blown back in again...
...winner, announced last week, was a comparative newcomer in the little-money-big-honor circuit. One of 300 invited entrants, representing a cross-section of the best in U.S. art, Akron's Raphael Gleitsmann, 38, had rung the bell with a rather obviously composed but very richly painted oil entitled Medieval Shadows (see cut). Its deep reds and browns, applied in thick gobs laid on with a knife and then overlaid with transparent glazes, had an ember-like glow...
...Interior C. Girard Davidson agreed that allocations had just about been done to death-but by a different hand. He had asked the Department of Commerce's Steel Products Advisory Committee (composed of 27 of the industry's top executives) for enough steel to permit all oil line-pipe mills and mine machinery makers to operate at capacity. The committee had turned him down. Last week Davidson accused the committee of "supplying steel for nonessential and even frivolous purposes ... I can draw no conclusion . . . other than that the steel industry has decided to jettison the voluntary allocations program...
...success of Three Little Pigs, had plastered the Disney label on $10 million worth of manufactured goods. After Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) the business became a landslide. The roster of licensees grew to resemble a bluebook of U.S. big business (it includes Standard Oil, Du Pont, General Mills, Armour meats, Life Savers). In Manhattan, Gimbels sold 2,000 pairs of Mickey Mouse sandals in one day; in Chicago, Marshall Field recently had a $10,000 day on $3 sweaters offering a choice of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck or Pluto...
...difficult to see where his proposed Department of Social Welfare would fit into such a "house-cleaned" Administration. And it is difficult to reconcile Mr. Dewey's talk of federal reclamation and flood control with his support of the Republican policy of leaving control of tide-lands oil to the separate states...