Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crude, vulgar and unbecoming display of a nasty temper." Thus wrote Florida's Supreme Court in 1953, scolding Circuit Judge Stanley Milledge for the way he had bawled out an attorney in his courtroom. In Miami last week, testy, white-haired Judge Milledge, 61, flew into another tantrum and onto Florida front pages in probably the least judicial photograph of a judge yet to reach print...
Thus the U.S.. armed with the local atomic capability of the Sixth Fleet and the worldwide thermonuclear capability of Strategic Air Command, and assured by week's end that a missile speedup was inevitable (see below), moved to meet Khrushchev's crude power play with a readiness to use power, if necessary. How to preserve that power and that diplomatic capability five to ten years hence, in the face of Sputnik's warning, was the heart of the sober second thought in Washington last week...
...September, nearly 43 million bbl. more than during the same period last year. Oilmen everywhere cut back exploration for new wells, and prices slumped sharply. With more oil than it can sell, Ohio Oil Co. shaved its bids for new supplies of Wyoming heavy crude by 8? per bbl. and Indiana Standard cut its price to Arkansas producers by 10? per bbl. At consumer levels a rash of price wars from New Orleans to New Jersey cut service station prices as low as 14.9? per gal. before taxes...
...limited to twelve days, lowest allowable since 1939. Louisiana wells are producing at history's lowest rate, while Oklahoma is so pressed that it went to court last week with a $500 million suit against Gulf Oil Corp., charging that the company cut its purchases of Oklahoma crude to 80% of allowables without asking for necessary "exemptions" from its buying agreements...
...Standard Oil, Ohio Standard) for sizable boosts in their import quotas. Navy Captain Matthew V. Carson Jr., administrator of the program, also turned down Eastern States Petroleum Co. and Sinclair Oil Co., even though Sinclair argues that it will mean costly cutbacks in its ambitious plans to sell Venezuelan crude...