Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peru's Amazonian fields may be even richer than million-barrel-a-day Venezuela...
...about President Lincoln during the War between the States. When some character was complaining to President Lincoln about the Northern General Grant's proclivities for whiskey, Lincoln is said to have remarked that he would find out the brand of whiskey that General Grant used and send a barrel of it to various other and less successful generals...
...Slaughter. Newfoundland swilers are old hands at blasting and nudging their craft clear into the whelping ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...
...also offered an increase of 10? a barrel in crude prices. But, thanks to the surplus, the price of gasoline will probably remain the same, when & if the industry is "de-controlled...
This was Russia's opportunity to try putting the Anglo-Americans across a propaganda barrel-the kind Russia had endured over Iran. This was also Franco's opportunity-as it had been the opportunity of Hitler. For all he was worth, the wily Gallegan dictator played Russia against Britain...