Word: oil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commonplace among the local relief agencies that give out the supplies. In one town political bosses pocketed a flat 25% from each man's 30?. In other areas the government farmed out relief projects to private contractors who paid off flage-lados in unwanted goods, e.g., hair oil, then bought it back at half price...
...gave way too. After a bitter, two-year struggle -regarded as a test case for all North American railroads -the giant. 17,000-mile Canadian Pacific Railway Co. finally wrested an admission from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen that a fireman has no useful function on an oil-fired diesel locomotive. To establish the principle, the C.P.R. proposed to remove firemen from yard and freight diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched in dismay as their fellow rail workers...
...that he has made his own at the Met. Several of the Russian singers (who sang in Russian while Warren sang in Italian) came close to matching Warren in acting ability, but when he opened up his big voice, he dominated the stage. After his Act II aria, Cortigiani "oil razza, reported the New York Times's Howard Taubman, the Russians stopped the show with a spontaneous outburst. At the final curtain, they gave him a standing ovation. Warren is scheduled to appear in recitals in Leningrad, to do Rigoletto in Kiev, and to sing lago in Otello...
...world's big South American coffee producers are little better off. Though the physical volume of exports is still climbing, heavy overproduction, coupled with increased competition from African exporters (Ivory Coast, Uganda), has dragged prices down 30% to 40% in the last year. In oil, the trouble is not so much prices, but something equally damaging: a slump in demand, which will hold consumption to a 2.5% increase (v. the usual 6%) this year. In addition, the U.S., the world's biggest importer, has put on quotas that mean a 14% production cut and losses...
...months, many U.S. oil producers -especially independent Texas producers -have called the Administration's quota on oil imports a failure because it still lets too much foreign oil come into the U.S. To set the record straight, Matthew V. Carson, administrator of the quota plan, told an audience of independent oilmen last week that the program is working just about as well as hoped and "striking a reasonable balance between imports and domestic production." Imports have been cut by 168,900 bbl. per day, a drop of 17.4% from original schedules, are running at 12.5% of domestic production...