Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terra of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences wirelessed from Java that he had found in Java and Burma crude Old Stone Age tools which convinced him that contemporaries of China's Peking Man and Java's Ape-Man (Pithecanthropus erectus) had wandered over the whole Asiatic coast as far west as the Indian Ocean. These old men of China and Java are considered the most ancient of human fossils-500,000 to 1,000,000 years old. Dr. de Terra now believes that the oldest toolmaking culture in Asia originated in the southeastern part...
...with a billion barrels of oil being produced in the U. S., the price was $1.27 a barrel, high enough to give a company like Gulf Oil $44,000,000 in profits. Then a wildcatter named Dad Joiner brought in a well in East Texas and. within a year crude was selling...
Last week President C. M. Boggs of Kanotex Refining Co. in Arkansas City, Kans. notified the producers who supply his refinery with crude that henceforth he would pay them 25? less. Kanotex Refining is an obscure factor in the industry; without the present psychological state of crude oil producers, Mr. Boggs's ultimatum would have attracted no attention. But oil is the only important U. S. business which in the last year has withstood Depression, and producers felt it was too good to last. More important still-despite increasing demand, proration figures have unquestionably been too high. The Petroleum...
...available are the tourist road maps put out by the big French companies, Michelin and Taride. It is a terrible thing to see an artillery or infantry operation in open country being carried on by a man who is only able to feel his way by means of a crude tourist road map. The 'lines' are very rough, there is no regular front at all. What you get is a number of concentrations at various points, with big gaps in between." Three-quarters of the movements in the recent Leftist Aragón retreat took place "without...
...lone star rangers and wanderers of the wasteland, he decided, were interesting for a curious reason: They were like the heroes of some folk tale that had never quite got written. Nobody would compare the stories of Zane Grey to Beowulf, but before Beowulf there were probably generations of crude popular storytellers, handing on the same legends, gradually refining them, until eventually a poet appeared who could organize them into a unified work. Zane Grey's novels, Professor Whipple said, are such primitive legends of the old West-repetitious as folk tales, filled with bloody action and two-dimensional...