Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From England to Germany they have had enough of the Americans. It is not that they actually hate us. It is merely that they have had to put up with so much from us. ... We have been so loud, so boisterous, so crude and often so obnoxious that they will be glad to see the last American soldier leave...
...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...
...long as natural crude rubber remains scarce and private industry does not assume the job, the program calls for Jumbo to be maintained as a public charge. Labor difficulties and political upheavals in Far Eastern producing areas will hold 1946 U.S. imports of crude to about 250,000 tons. First postwar shipments arrived early in January, but total receipts so far have been only 57,608 tons...
...outlook is slightly better. But no one expects imports of natural rubber to come near meeting annual U.S. requirements of 900,000 tons until 1948. As the supply of crude increases, the report recommends that the least efficient synthetic plants be closed down, put up for sale to private industry. (Two high-cost plants have already been shut...
...neither Paramount nor Metro professes much alarm at this crude trespass. Paramount confidently says that Hal Wallis has the "official" story of the atom bomb locked safely in his desk. Says Metro: "SammyMarx has the atom sewed up tight...