Word: oilcans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuba is rich in sugar, tobacco and bandleaders. But it lacks the oil needed to industrialize its economy. Up to this year, only 33 wells have been drilled on the island, and production is still only a drop in the oilcan compared with Cuba's daily consumption of 50,000 bbls...
...during World War II, "Pug" Ismay knew, Churchill later wrote, "exactly how my mind was working from day to day." He patiently stayed up night after night, adjusting himself to Churchill's "nocturnal hours, went with Churchill to Casablanca, Cairo, Moscow, Teheran and Yalta. "The man with the oilcan," top Allied leaders called him. "When he's around, the wheels turn...