Word: oil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belated harvest; housewives, blinking happily at the unfamiliar sun, pounded away at the backlog of laundry that had built up during Communist barrages. Off Liao-lo Beach an endless parade of vessels, ranging from huge, wallowing LSDs down to motorized junks, disgorged the sinews of war-food, oil, ammunition, spanking-new U.S. -made 155-mm. howitzers and replacement tanks...
...Moment to Negotiate. On the surface, the F.L.N.'s response to De Gaulle's psychological offensive has been uncompromising toughness. In late August the rebels extended the war to France, and in a month of operations struck 180 times against targets ranging from oil dumps to the Eiffel Tower, from cops on the beat to Information Minister Jacques Soustelle...
...Purina Dog Chow, Alber's Friskies (Carnation Co.), Gro-Pup (Kellogg Co.). But more poundage is sold in canned "wet" varieties, which made up 65% of the total dog-food weight bought last year, outsold every canned vegetable, used more tin cans than any other product outside of oil and beer...
...Fleet, declared last week that with the start of the monsoon season, the Reds have missed any chance to invade Quemoy this year. But the monsoon also hampers the effort to supply the island. And to the weary, frustrated defenders of Quemoy, even the arrival of all the alligators, oil drums, food cases and medicine packages in the Far East would not be a completely effective answer to the relentless fire from the unmolested Red guns on the mainland...
Giant Gulf Oil Corp. announced that it will analyze the speeches, voting and attendance records of "Congressmen; then Gulf management will report its findings to its 161,000 shareholders, employees and dealers. If the program proves a success, Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), among other companies, will copy it. Top executives from U.S. business are now forming conservative but nonpartisan Americans for Constitutional Action to endorse pro-business candidates. Headed by Admiral Ben Moreell, who retires this week as chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., ACA counts among its trustees Armstrong Cork Co. Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr.; former Sears, Roebuck...