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Word: oiled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same day, in Cairo, the Arab League announced that, if U.N. sends a security force to Palestine, member states planned to contribute regular army units to an "Arab Liberation Army." The League had earlier resolved to block the building of oil pipelines and threatened to "reconsider" oil concessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Blasted Dawn | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...another reach for uplift last week, the Diet's Cultural Affairs Committee hung oil paintings in the heretofore severely plain corridors and party offices of the Diet building. The largest party (the Socialists) got the largest picture, Tea Maidens. The Communists (four members of the Diet) got the smallest, Summer, a lady with a pink parasol. Said Committee Chairman Kanjiro Sato: "At first we thought the women members would create a quieting influence. But we were mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: My Utmost | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...case of Palestine, there is no slim opening for hope. The "oil curtain" has swung completely shut. After years of discussion and investigation, after the final UN decision to partition Palestine, the United States has turned its other face and, as one, UN delegate politely put it, is "urging the UN to do nothing as regards Palestine, but to do it immediately." This move is an inestimable tragedy to those hundreds of thousands of Jews in European DP camps who have been existing on a hope--the hope that they soon will be allowed to go to Palestine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: These Are the Times... | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

Professor Loot has already used seismographs to prospect for gold and oil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's New Seismograph Can Foretell Weather | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...Oil deposits. 5. Manganese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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