Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Disturb. It was in Missouri that the bursitis attacked the candidate, the pain centering in his right shoulder. He applied a hot water bottle, failed to take Mrs. Dewey's advice to rub oil on his skin, and ended up with a burn...
...haircut, wowed Edwardsville's drugstore cowboys by flashing $1,000 bills. He staked the town's bowling team to a trip to a Detroit tournament. He bought a duck hunters' show place in Arkansas, dropped $85,000 in a Wyoming land deal, plunged in Illinois oil, imported Hollywood cuties for a Cheyenne businessman's party...
...would deliver on a certain date, temporarily appeased the depositor by paying off the bet on due day. How did Bob hope to keep his bubble from bursting? Best guess was that he hoped to use his huge amount of cash to turn some super deal in land or oil speculation, pay off everybody, including...
...foggiest airport." Arcata is "socked in" by rain or fog so often (97 days a year) that the U.S. armed forces have made it a base for their all-weather flying experiments, equipped the field with blind landing instruments (both G.C.A. and I.L.S.) and Fido (fog-dispersing oil burners). Through the soup over Arcata one day last December, a Southwest Airways DC-3 made the world's first blind landing with all three systems on a scheduled commercial run. Since then, Southwest, a ten-plane "feeder" line between 24 California and Oregon small towns, has made 1,200 routine...
Texas Payoff. After nearly 18 months of negotiations, Monsanto Chemical Co. and the Oil Insurance Association of Chicago finally reached an agreement on the company's claims for its plant & equipment losses in the great Texas City explosion (TIME, April 28, 1947). Total indemnity: $17,312,000, the biggest single insurance payment in history, according to Monsanto...