Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military camouflage of World War II-let alone World War I-is so crude that it would shame innumerable snakes, caterpillars, birds, fishes. For the unhappy fact is that man has failed to master many of the primary principles of protective coloration practiced by the lower animals...
Other parts of the British Empire have long since rationed gasoline. Canada needs to cut gasoline consumption, which has risen 20% since the war started, because Britain requires not only more oil but also the tankers which formerly carried crude oil to Canada. But Canada's move was not rationing. It made gasoline only a little more difficult to buy. Like Secretary Ickes' efforts to scold the eastern U.S. into using less gasoline, it may have to be followed by real rationing...
...Received a letter from President Roosevelt urging enactment of a bill providing for condemnation of rights of way across ten States which would supply Middle Atlantic refineries with crude oil for finished petroleum products. Purpose of the bill: to relieve pressure on the railroads. The Atlantic Coast's congested defense areas now depend for their petroleum on tankers plying between the Gulf Coast and Middle Atlantic ports. When the ships are moved into transocean lanes, the railroads must supply the oil. Therefore, argued Mr. Roosevelt, build the pipelines...
...only sound near the top of 10,000-ft. Mount Alagi one morning last week was the chink of a chisel on stone-two workmen were carving a name into a crude headstone. Most of the graves were marked only by rough wooden crosses, hacked from ammunition boxes; beside each cross was a half-buried wine bottle, with the deceased's identification papers crammed in. The workmen, glad to be alive, chipped somberly among the graves of men who had done their brave best...
Germany's total output of oil products, including both imports and synthetic production, is thought to equal only 5% of U.S. production of crude oil, though no one knows exactly how much synthetic fuel she produces. In synthesis, it is easiest to produce gasoline (composed of lighter, simpler molecules), harder to produce fuel oil, hardest to produce lubricating oils and greases. For this reason, while Germany is moderately well off for gasoline, she is thought to be desperately short of the heavier oils. This would explain her eagerness to lay hands on every possible field of natural petroleum...