Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the Sea. Even finding the missing subs proved impossible. Dozens of planes and ships equipped with radar and sonar sounding devices searched wide stretches of the Mediterranean without success. They found bits of debris and oil slicks, which are common in busy sea lanes, but analysis failed to link the findings with either the Dakar or Minerve. When the oxygen reserves of the two vessels were exhausted three to four days later, hopes for saving the 121 crewmen were abandoned...
...officer of a Soviet "fishing boat," and a Soviet adviser to Cuban intelligence. In one such meeting last year, Raúl said, Rudolf P. Shliapnikov, second secretary of the Soviet embassy in Havana, assured the group that Russia could bring Castro to his knees by simply cutting off oil shipments. "Rodolfo made his observation," Raúl noted dryly, "in the midst of laughter...
...prevent hunger, is at work trying to make up for a scarcity of salt by distilling it from sea water. Almost every night, privately owned Super Constellations fly badly needed medicines, along with arms and ammunition, from Lisbon into Port Harcourt. Biafra is unable to sell any of its oil and its refineries are virtually shut down. But breweries and cigarette plants are producing at normal levels, and factories that are not short of material are working part time...
...Oil companies fared remarkably well, despite the Middle East war in June. Increased reliance on supertankers and Western Hemisphere oil spared most producers any serious dislocations. Advances ranged from 9% to 18% for such companies as Continental Oil, Atlantic Richfield, Phillips Petroleum, Jersey Standard, Shell and Texaco. In keeping with the industry's buoyant mood, Atlantic Richfield Chairman Robert O. Anderson pointed to expected benefits from recent refinery modernization and predicted "continued earnings improvement during 1968" for his company...
...truism that oil companies will go almost anywhere to find oil-and the jungles of Colombia are no exception. In 1963, after 15 years of geological surveys, Texaco discovered oil in the wilds of Putumayo on the Ecuadorian border. The find was among the world's richest; the location was one of the world's worst...