Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crude but Sympathetic. Peter Grimes is no conventional operatic hero. Britten found him in a poem written by Parson Poet George Crabbe (1754-1832) and added a few hints of Freud. Crabbe's Grimes was an uncouth and unsympathetic ruffian; to Britten and Librettist Montagu Slater he is still crude but somehow sympathetic-a character who, by his uncontrollable rages, continually puts himself at swords'-points with society, which Britten represents with the massive chorus. Sings Peter Grimes: "They listen to money, these Borough gossips. I listen to courage and fiery visions...
...industry was producing more than ever before. Crude oil production was running at the rate of 5,300,000 barrels a day, an alltime record, well above peak wartime production of 4,700,000 barrels daily...
Outside the wall, a young Hindu was seized. He had placed the crude bomb, then had stood well back waiting for the explosion. It did not come. As he moved closer to relight the fuse, the bomb went off. He was the only casualty...
...long-range oil picture was also dark. The U.S., he said, was using up its oil four times as fast as it was finding it. Said Forrestal: if the nation went to war tomorrow, it would be 2,000,000 barrels a day short of its minimum needs (current crude production: 5.3 million barrels a day). Forrestal wanted the U.S. to create a vast new industry to make petroleum out of coal, natural gas and oil shale...
...thought Krug was trying to bite off too much. The technology of making synthetic oil was improving so rapidly that such big plants might well be obsolete before they were in production. Know-how had already reached the point where gasoline from natural gas could compete with gasoline from crude...