Word: bbl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army engineers figure the Seaway would require 10,000 men (mostly unskilled), 84,000,000 board feet of lumber (3% of 1940's record output), 130,000 tons of steel (around one half day's U.S. output), 6,650,000 bbl. of cement (5.1% of 1940-5 output). A sharper squeeze would be felt when builders start after dredges, pneumatic hammers, giant cranes, electrical equipment, all now as scarce as they were plentiful five years...
...shortage. Last week A.A.R. offered a neat statistic: of the 150,000 U.S. tank cars, over 130,000 are owned or leased by shippers (mainly oil & chemical companies), and some 19,000 of them are idle. Nineteen thousand tank cars, they figured, could handle 6,000,000 bbl. a month, though at several times tanker cost (estimated East Coast oil deficiency for 1941: 50,000,000 bbl.). Many an Eastern commuter had seen idle cars on sidings. Their lessors pointed out that there was always a surplus of tank cars at this time of year, waiting for the normal summer...
...Manzanillo, Mexico-on Mexico's Pacific shore almost due west of Mexico City-the 6,892-ton armed merchant cruiser Prince Robert closed in on the 9,179-ton North German Lloyd freighter Weser and took her prize. Aboard the Weser was a fishy cargo: 19,000 bbl. of fuel oil, 600 bbl. of lubricating oil, 15 live steers, a large stock of fresh vegetables and a "lot of miscellaneous stuff." Her clearance papers were not in order. Mexican officials, who thought that the vessel was headed either for a supply rendezvous at sea, or for Vladivostok, whence...
Prices were $7~$8 a barrel ($1 a bbl. above 1939), might hit $9. From 1935 to 1938 they had sagged as low as $5.50. Before that (1931-35) they had been unspeakable. Time was (before 1924) when oysters were the No. 1 U. S. cash seafood product. Now topped by salmon and tuna, the industry, which employs some 66,000 workers, harvests an average 16,300,000 bushels of oysters annually...
...first six months of the war) and scrap iron. But her purchases of oil were another matter. Allied optimists have counted on Italy's being short of oil, hoped she would prove a drain on Germany if she joined up. In 1938 Italy bought 6,750,552 bbl. of U. S. crude; in 1939, 4,984,809. But in the first four months of 1940 her imports slacked off to 1,330,140 bbl., a rate of less than 4,000,000 bbl. a year. Nevertheless, she was getting lots of oil. Her new source: Mexico, which...