Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supertanker Eastern Sun off the coast of South Africa crackled a radio message from home: instead of heading for company docks at Marcus Hook, Pa., unload cargo of 220,000 bbls. of crude oil in "the United Kingdom area." The same oil-to-Europe word was flashed out to dozens of other tankers all over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans last week. In Washington the U.S. moved to ease Western Europe's oil shortage brought about by the blocking of the Suez Canal...
...Germany, which at first regarded the shortage with hearty optimism, has taken a second look and clamped on unofficial rationing by cutting gasoline and fuel-oil deliveries by up to 20%. Despite earlier reports of big reserves, Germany's actual crude oil in storage probably totals no more than one month's supply; some steelmakers, iron foundries, chemical and glass firms have only enough for two weeks' production...
...chief fear was not the war of "rocket weapons" and other "modern and terrible means" that Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin threatened against Great Britain and France (TIME, Nov. 12). This was taken to be crude and nasty propaganda. The fear was of a limited war in the Middle East, of the kind Soviet Russia likes: perhaps without any Russian soldiers, but instigated and supplied by the Russians...
...jungle, to the ''People Inside" (the Communists), and fight for justice. Or to go to Communist China "to give their strength and enthusiasm" to "the newest America, the earth's old country, the ancestor's land." Author Han Suyin is not so crude as to line up on the Communist side herself, but most of the native characters who are decent and serious are sympathetic to the People Inside; the despicable ones are antiCommunist, usually for despicable reasons. The whites are divided just as clearly: the thickheaded colonials who don't know the score...
...surprised those who fail to recognize that the disagreement among Communists is over which "road to socialism" to take, not whether to travel there. The Titos and the Gomulkas believe, in fact, that their Communism is purer and surer than the Kremlin's. To them Khrushchev & Co. are crude bunglers. But open rebellion is something to link them all in mutual alarm...