Word: oils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oil Depletion Allowance: It should be retained as an encouragement to investment. But, said Rocky with a smile last week, "I might be considered a prejudiced witness...
Hector obediently bided his time, called almost every evening through the years at the McLaughlin mansion on Doctor Delgado Street. For his share of the family fortune, Hector got a monopoly on peanut oil, and with the aid of prohibitive tariffs on other cooking oils, he got rich. As youth faded, he developed modest hobbies : collecting fine horses at his Engombe Ranch outside Ciudad Trujillo, collecting shoes (he has more than 200 pairs). The dictator tapped him for the presidency in 1952, but unobtrusive Hector had no pretension that the job gave him power...
...gets only a $50-a-week allowance from her business manager. When she does not cook aftertheater snacks for herself, she relies on what Mamma sends down from Yonkers, where the Italianos now live. She owns Manhattan real estate, has an interest in a California bank and a Texas oil well, but she keeps warm by huddling in the kitchen of her Greenwich Village apartment, with both stove and oven going full blast...
...intelligent use of them, the scent track might offer rather more than meets the nose. Exhibitors can sniff secondary possibilities in "the olfactory dimension." One of them has suggested that if he could give his customers the smell of steam heat, he might be able to cut down his oil bill. Another plans to fill his theater, at tactful intervals, with the scent of buttered popcorn...
...Reports (10-11 p.m.). Iran: Brittle Ally explores an economy that swings on oil, caviar and carpets...