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Word: hydrocol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Reconstruction Finance Corp. lent $9,000,000 to Carthage Hydrocol, Inc., to build a $19,000,000 plant near Brownsville to make gasoline from natural gas. Behind Carthage Hydrocol are eight large companies,* which were willing to risk $10,000,000 of their own cash, and Texas-born Percival Cleveland ("Dobie") Keith, the red-faced, hurry-up man who bossed the construction of the famed atom-bomb plant at Oak Ridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Ersatz, Texas Style | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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