Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Castor Oil. Put this way, as it often was, the question was ridiculous. Director Hoover's G-men were not a strong-arm squad of club-swinging blackshirts; nobody was fed castor oil, or taken off in the middle of the night to be liquidated. Certainly the FBI could not be accused of making reckless arrests...
...rest of the U.S. business colony watched the Gould case with morbid fascination. For the first two months under the new "People's Government," one firm after another-Standard Oil, the Shanghai Telephone Co., China Electric, Caltex and even the U.S. consulate-had been subjected to similar lock...
...spring wore into a cruelly hot summer, the Amethyst's Lieut. Commander John S. Kerans faced mounting difficulties. The heat aboard the motionless steel vessel frequently drove the temperature to 120. Fuel supplies were perilously low, because the ship's oil bunkers were being sapped daily to run her generator...
...oil industry, king of last year's profit parade, was still doing all right. But with crude oil once more in surplus and prices again competitive, the industry continued to slide from its boomtime peak. Phillips Petroleum's net dropped 40% from $36.5 million to $21.9 million, Socony-Vacuum's from an estimated $71 million to $47 million, down...
...them 44 of their 93 ships; during the Palestine fighting, they lost control of the Haifa refinery. But Sir William speedily got the refinery back, and he has rebuilt the tanker fleet to 121 ships, greater than ever. Since the war he has helped Anglo-Iranian boost its crude-oil production from 16.8 million tons in 1945 to 28 million tons...