Word: crude
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...said Navy Secretary Frank Knox last week before the House Naval Affairs Committee. He predicted a serious shortage of crude oil within a year. Within 14 years the U.S. will be a "have-not" nation in oil, he said, when the last drop of its oil fields is drained (if the present rate continues). Same day, Assistant Deputy Petroleum Administrator Robert E. Allen warned that the U.S. is threatened with a permanent oil shortage in two years unless "miraculously prompt" discovery of new fields offsets declining production. The U.S. must bring in 20,000 new wells a year, said...
Last Post. No nation handles its casual ties as carefully as we do. The 125 who lie in rows at the edge of the crude cemetery were examined meticulously. A medical officer (Captain Louvera B. Schmidt of Salem, Ore.) recorded the cause of death and the number and type of wounds as each body was unclothed. Members of the graves registration company cut open each pocket and placed the personal effects of the dead in clean wool socks for dispatch to the quartermaster depot at Kansas City. One identification tag has been left on each body, the other nailed...
...stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron, the M-3 is nevertheless rugged, light and easy to massproduce. It coughs out a clipful of .45-caliber pistol slugs, can be fired with fair accuracy at short range (as with any submachine gun, the closer the better). Of all-metal construction, the M-3 weighs less than nine pounds, compared to twelve for the famous Thompson "tommy-gun," a standard Army weapon whose relationship to the humble M3" is approximately that of a chronometer to a dollar watch. (Even in quantity production the Thompson gun costs about $40 to make...
...This year's essential rubber needs add up to 609,000 long tons (437,000 tons are strictly military requirements for the U.S., Britain and Canada). This year's initial inventory of crude (443,000 tons) plus this year's expected crude imports (54,000 tons) and synthetic production (254,000 tons) add up to 751,000 tons. That means that the U.S. should have a margin of safety of 142,000 tons-42% more than the rock-bottom minimum working inventory that the military believes essential...
Made from pine and cottonwood, decorated with paper flowers and covered with a crude gesso,* these bultos (figures carved in the round) and retablos (painted panels) of the Saints and Holy Family were vaguely reminiscent of medieval European art, utterly unlike anything else the U.S. has produced. They were done between 1725 and 1875 by humble priests and lay members of tiny churches in the poverty-stricken regions of Southern Colorado and New Mexico...