Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dependent on its servants as an incubator baby. In a single day it uses over one billion gallons of water, imports 23,500 tons of food, spews out one billion gallons of sewage and over 8,000 tons of garbage. In winter it needs 20 million gallons of fuel oil. Six million people travel daily on its 237 miles of subway and elevated lines, 1½% million on its surface transport lines. Some 400,000 commuters stream into Manhattan daily from the suburbs of Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester County and Connecticut-a train arrives in its stations every...
...gasoline tax boost from 7? to 9? a gallon (highest in the U.S.); 3) a 100% boost in the state sales tax (from 1? to 2? ); 4) a $100 tax on slot machines (although they are illegal); 5) increased levies on natural gas and crude oil. Estimated yearly haul...
...crude brush to varnish the new soles. He did it by pounding the tip of a stick until the fibers were separated and soft. Afterwards, Band ran home as fast as his new soles would carry him, made his own brush, and set to work on his first oil painting-using salad oil...
Before he was old enough to vote, William Larimer Mellon decided that he had not been born to sit at a desk. He refused to finish school, was miserable as a shipping clerk. To curb his restlessness, staid Uncle Andrew Mellon assigned him some oil leases that had turned up in the course of some family deals. To them, William added scores of others. He built a refinery and pipeline, surprised his money-wise family by organizing an integrated oil business which he sold to the Rockefellers in 1895 for about twice what it cost...
Deepest. The Pure Oil Co., which has been drilling an oil well in Wyoming's Wind River Valley, brought in a producing well at 14,309 ft., a record depth. (Previous record for a producing well: a 14,000-ft.-deep well in Grady County, Okla.) In a 41-hour test, the well flowed 1,413 barrels. The news sent Pure Oil's stock up 4½ points to 40 in one day on the New York Stock Exchange...