Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curb on big oil companies. Last week the program's administrator. Navy Captain Matthew V. Carson Jr.. logged a mutinous crew and foul weather ahead. The companies were asked to cut imports 10% below their 1954-to-1956 levels, bring in only 755,700 bbl. of foreign crude a day. But Captain Carson's first statistics showed a daily August total of 982,300 bbl. The companies themselves estimate daily imports from now through December at 849,300 bbl. Though he professed no dismay. Carson warned tautly: "The only alternative to this program is mandatory action...
...bomber), which makes daily passenger runs between Moscow and Prague. Later newsmen and aviation experts clambered aboard for a firsthand look at the only type of jetliner in passenger use since the decommissioning of Britain's flawed Comets in 1954. Their assessment: good, but in some ways surprisingly crude...
Destroyer. Crab grass, dandelions and other weeds can be cleaned out in about five days by using a new weed killer just put on sale in Canada by Inventor Robert Blain of Calgary. A 2-ft., lipsticklike bar composed of raw wax, crude oil and 2, 4-D, Blain's Weedmaster Block is merely dragged once over the lawn to coat the grass with weed killer. Price of a 4-lb. bar, enough to protect about 4,000 sq. ft. of grass for two years...
...York State Open. That same summer (1942) she got to the semifinals of the A.T.A.'s national championship for girls. She lost to a buxom teenager named Nana Davis (now Nana Davis Vaughan), and Mrs. Vaughan still remembers her appalling manners: "She was a very crude creature. She had the idea she was better than anyone. She said, 'Who's this Nana Davis? Let me at her.' When I beat her, she headed right for the grandstand. Some kid had been laughing at her and she was going to throw...
...sends Voss and his companions on a rambling journey into disaster. The novel's finely told climax adds up to a masterly impression: a surrealist landscape of dead trees, the hallucinations of men dying of thirst and hunger, and the trancelike thoughts of nomad aborigines merged into a crude but forceful design like the bark paintings of the aborigines themselves...