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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cooking-oil merchants of Meknes, Fez and Casablanca, who posed as garage owners. The merchants mixed the bargain-price lubricating oil with olive oil in a 1-to-4 ratio that enabled them to boost by 75% their profit on the cheap cooking oil that the poorest Moroccan families use. Ready to cheat, if not perhaps intending what happened, the merchants did not know that the American lubricating oil contained an anti-corrosive additive (tri-ortho cresyl phosphate), two grams of which, taken orally, are enough to cause paralysis of arms and legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: The Malady of Meknes | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...London Times, "be the first Oxford rowing Blue in the history of the Church to achieve the purple." Since 1927 Heard has served at the Vatican on the Sacred Roman Rota, the high ecclesiastical court that passes on applications for marriage annulments. The Vatican expects Pope John to make use of Monsignor Heard's legal abilities in preparing for the forthcoming Ecumenical Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Eight New Hats | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...wanted to try the technique again, but with a bigger donor animal-and hence a larger blood volume-to clear the patient's blood faster. In fact, he said, if he could figure out a way to get it into the operating room, he would like to use an elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sheep's Blood Bath | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...display racks to retailers at cost, also assumes responsibility for keeping the store's stock-both from Hallmark and from competitors-up-to-date, re-ordering when the cards get low. All the retailer has to do is ring the cash register. While others in the industry also use the system, Hall says that his company does the job more often, thus knows precisely which cards are selling, which are duds, when to introduce new designs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Greeting Card King | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...natural industrial stones, developed its process to prevent any other synthetic-diamond producer from drastically undercutting natural industrial diamond prices. Despite De Beers' discovery, G.E. has a long head start, is improving its stones. It disclosed last week that it had developed a diamond material that can be used in metal-bonded wheels, a use that was not possible before. Ideally, Oppenheimer sees "an expanded world market, in which both the natural and the synthetic product could coexist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Synthetic Rivalry | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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