Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentences, twelve of her co-defendants had also received sentence reductions. But Use had been the most vivid of the defendants, and she had received the review board's biggest reprieve; Use became the focus of protest. From all sides the U.S. Army was boiled in angry oil...
After Tin, Oil. The return of Lee Soong and Sharkey to Malaya was soon followed by a wave of terrorism through the rich tin mines and rubber plantations of the north (TIME, Aug. 23). Most of Malaya's tin and rubber normally go to the U.S. Britain can ill afford the loss of dollars from her small hard-currency pool...
Latest result of the Calcutta conference has been Moscow-trained Muso Suparto's proclamation of an Indonesian "People's Republic" and his seizure of Madiun, Java's third city. Production of Indonesia's rubber, tin and oil and their distribution throughout the world was the basis of Holland's prewar prosperity. If the Communists succeed and choke off revival of this trade, it will take more than Marshall Plan aid to keep The Netherlands afloat...
Since 1929, when Dictator de Rivera seized U.S., British, French and Dutch oil properties and merged them into a graft-ridden state monopoly, U.S. oilmen have been kept out of Spain. Recently, Spanish industry, which has been pinched by an oil shortage, has prodded Dictator Franco into dickering with U.S. oil experts to come back into Spain and step up oil production...
Last week, the news leaked out that Caltex Oil Products Corp., a joint subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California and The Texas Co., had made a deal to help build and operate a refinery in Spain, near Cartagena, at a cost of around $18 million. Caltex would put up part of the money, and own 24%. The rest would be 24% owned by Cepsa, the state oil monopoly, and 52% by another state company, Institute Nacional de Industria...