Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three months in Washington, British, Canadian and U.S. oil experts have been conferring on a broad and complex question: How can Britain cut down on its greatest dollar drain, the $625 million a year it spends to buy and produce oil? ECA had tried to help: it had allocated $30 million for the construction of oil refineries in Britain...