Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain in badly needed dollars. Its $176 million offer was twice the value of the shares. Under the conditions laid down by the Cabinet, Texaco must operate the refinery at full capacity and step up oil exploration on the island. Trinidad Oil produces about 8,000,000 bbls. of crude annually but is a midget in the international oil industry. Yet no British firm was in shape to buy it, or provide the funds to expand it. In the long run, Texaco's expansion plans would mean increased U.S. dollar investment both in Britain and in underdeveloped Trinidad. Said...
Even worse, Holden makes crude physical advances to a sensitive, high-principled Red Cross girl (Deborah Kerr) who will only condescend to talk to him when he promises to tell her about the death of her husband on Guadalcanal...
...CRUDE-OIL IMPORTS must be cut, warns ODM. With industry planning imports of 352,000 bbls. daily v. 287,000 maximum advised by Government, ODM has notified industry of its "real concern" about effects on domestic production, hints it may seek import curbs if industry persists...
...TIRE PRICE INCREASE will be made in the near future, says B. F. Goodrich President W. S. Richardson. Synthetic-rubber prices have climbed about 4% to 23.9? a Ib. recently, but lower prices for crude rubber and nylon will keep tire prices about the same...
...truculent assertion of Russian nuclear capacity spoiled his peace-loving professions, and stole the play from his skillful offer of profitable East-West trade. The British consensus is that Georgy Malenkov is an able fellow and Bulganin an amiable second-rater, but that Khrushchev is a crude, crafty and headlong ruler who must be watched and cannot be trusted...