Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grimy Manhattan warehouse last week, the long-lost oil paintings of famed Illustrator Gustave Doré went on sale. Like the auctioneer, none of the 150 cautious dealers and enthusiastic old ladies on hand for the auction had any clear idea of what the paintings were worth...
Mexican politicos like to quote the law used to expropriate some $200,000,000 worth of U.S.-owned oil properties: "All hydrocarbons are the direct, inalienable and impressible property of the nation." They fight shy of mentioning just how much the expropriation cost Mexico. Ten years after expropriation, Pemex, the Government oil monopoly, still loses an estimated $3 million a month. To keep up Mexico's comparatively low oil production, known fields are being pumped too fast for maximum extraction; they will be exhausted in 20 years. Only a handful of new wells have been drilled this year...
...crash, No. 4's steel held, but the special's wooden cars burst into a knot of wreckage. Shattered gas lights and exploding gas tanks beneath the ancient coaches spread fire the train's length, set two nearby grain elevators ablaze, leaped to an Imperial Oil Co. storage depot where 80 drums of oil took fire. Rescuers saved as many passengers as they could before the flames drove them away...
...deputy sheriff, Burnham fought in campaigns against the Apaches, in South Africa's bloody Matabele Wars (which he virtually ended singlehanded by killing the Matabele god M'Limo in a cave), and in the Boer War. Back home in California, he struck it rich in the oil business, spent the rest of his life in prosperous comfort...
...Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean port of Sidon (TIME, March 24). When completed by 1949, the 30-to-31-inch line - world's biggest - will eliminate the present 3,650-mile tanker haul from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Trans-Arabian, affiliate of the Arabian-American Oil Co., will spend $125 million on construction, expects that the line will initially carry some 300,000 barrels of crude oil...