Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From British Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies the U. S. gets 85.9% of its crude rubber (plus 4.5% from French Indo-China...
...citizens worrying about the danger to their crude rubber supply, of which over 90% now comes from the East Indies, neither of these events was particularly reassuring. Instead they emphasized the urgency of the problem in terms of National Defense. For since it still lacks real tonnage production of synthetic rubber, the U. S. might have tonight to keep the trade routes to the East open...
...began to feel the squeeze. First its domestic crude supplies and pipe lines were sold to a Standard of Indiana subsidiary. Next, in 1932, all Pan Am's foreign holdings were sold. The purchaser: Standard of New Jersey, which got the famed Lago properties and the Aruba refinery (now the heart of Standard of New Jersey's foreign production), a fleet of 29 tankers, plus refineries in Mexico, Germany. Amoco became dependent once more on Standard of New Jersey for its oil and gas, was right back where it had started...
...scrap iron. But her purchases of oil were another matter. Allied optimists have counted on Italy's being short of oil, hoped she would prove a drain on Germany if she joined up. In 1938 Italy bought 6,750,552 bbl. of U. S. crude; in 1939, 4,984,809. But in the first four months of 1940 her imports slacked off to 1,330,140 bbl., a rate of less than 4,000,000 bbl. a year. Nevertheless, she was getting lots of oil. Her new source: Mexico, which in the first 20 weeks of this year...
...This still leaves it stranded somewhere in the Guatemalan jungles, but even a white man can put up with an hour or so down there. Ann Sheridan, of course, cooperates with the mosquitoes and the yellow fever to make the place unpleasant. There were some rather crude members of the audience at the Metropolitan who whistled at certain sequences built upon her specialized sort of appeal, but it is hard to see why. While it is true that she has learned from Busby Berkeley, or perhaps his best friend, to sashay her hips around while walking down the street...