Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their interest was based on a sad and simple fact: no known extraction process gets all the oil out of an oilfield. Much of it stays below ground, sticking to rock particles. But if the bacterial process works, this oil can be got at, and exhausted oil pools will yield a valuable "second crop...
...mere listeners. Next day the audience was told what it had heard. The San Francisco Chronicle's able critic Alfred Frankenstein, called it "big . . . challenging . . . important . . . austere . . . fiendishly difficult ... a complex of forceful and fruitful ideas which can be studied for a long time before they yield all their secrets...
ATLANTA, January 19--Herman Talmadge, whose claim to governorship of Georgia is currently challenged by M. E. Thompson, declared tonight that he would continue to hold the office and would "not yield to any threat or bow to force...
...swore to close the Yard to all suspicious characters after dark. At last the mystery of Harvard's iron curtain has been revealed. Freshmen, over sympathetic to the woes of all men, will no longer be afraid of gates, and most important of all, perhaps the Wigglesworth gate will yield to the salve of psychiatry. Already there are indications that the mentally sick gate is on the road to complete normalcy by staying open an entire week. But whether or not there are relapses, the Wigglesworth gate is regaining its health and can be expected to join the Harvard Fellowship...
Some $22 billion has been declared surplus with another $7 billion to come, said the report. Property which cost $12.5 billion has been disposed of for about $2.2 billion, a gross yield of only 17.5 percent. But after charging off selling costs, and the bigger losses it will take on the less desirable surpluses left, WAA "may end up with a net loss...