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Word: oil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name when natives told Missouri Pacific surveyors, trying to decide where to build a station: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Since 1939 he has represented the hill-and-dale Second District, which also boasts such place names as Morning Sun, Evening Shade and Oil Trough. Stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 Ibs.), gracious Wilbur Mills has a first-rate fiscal mind, is a Rayburn protege, ranks high on the list of possible future Speakers. But he is in a dangerous political situation: with Arkansas due to lose two Representatives after the 1960 census. Mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: I Love This House | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Some retail prices edged upward in December, among them used cars, fuel oil, fresh vegetables and beef, but the ups were more than balanced by the downs-new cars, gasoline, fresh fruits, pork, eggs, movie admissions, women's clothing. Net result, as reported last week by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics: after creeping up to the alltime peak last November, consumer prices slipped downward a little in December to pare the BLS consumer price index two-tenths of a point, to 123.7 (the 1947-49 average: 100). Price forecast for 1959, as most economists see it: renewed upcreep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Prices Pared | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...police quickly rounded up 350 Communist and Peronista labor leaders. Frondizi calmly boarded a DC-6 to keep his date in the U.S. By the time he arrived in Charleston, S.C., Argentina was at a standstill, except for troop-guarded public-utility plants, and the nation's oil workers had been drafted into the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Harassed Advocate | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...WAGE BOOST will go to some 500,000 of oil industry's workers and salaried employees. Hike lifts average hourly pay of refinery workers from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...OIL TAX in Venezuela, splitting profits 60-40 instead of previous 50-50, has already begun to pinch U.S. companies. Creole Petroleum Corp. reported that earnings dipped from $397 million in 1957 to estimated $239 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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