Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose helicopter wing returned recently from Viet Nam. "It's not quite what we're used to." Battling wing ice and frozen gas lines instead of flak, pilots flew more than 1,000 mercy sorties. When an Air Force C-141 dropped 1,300 gal. of fuel oil and a team of paracommandos on Arizona's Tuba City (pop. 2,000), schoolchildren braved 10°-below-zero temperatures-to get the parachutists' autographs...
...they represent 21½ different opinions." The one piece of legislation that carries his name- the Hickenlooper Amendment to the 1962 foreign aid bill-cuts off aid to any country that expropriates U.S. property. The amendment forced Ceylon to reverse an expropriation of U.S.-owned oil depots and gas stations and compelled Brazil to reconsider a threatened seizure...
...real Suez, closed by war, gave Esso Europe its own shakedown cruise. With Europe cut off from much of its Middle East oil, other sources had to be located rapidly. Campbell diverted Jersey tankers at sea and chartered others, kept the region fueled with a pipeline of ships bringing oil from the Western Hemisphere. At one point Esso's Fawley, England, refinery was handling a mid-American grade of oil called Rocky Mountain Sour that had never before been seen in Europe...
...Innovations like Esso Europe fascinate Jersey executives because Haider, as a 38-year veteran of a longtime conservative company, might have been expected to go by the well-thumbed company book. But in the course of his career, Haider has often dared to be different; living in an Oklahoma oil camp in the 1930s, he was the only employee who stubbornly refused to cut his lawn at company orders, and was nearly fired...
Haider was born on a North Dakota wheat farm, moved with his family to California as a teenager. He got his chemical-engineering degree at Stanford University ('27), before long was working for a Jersey affiliate called Carter Oil, where one of his early laboratory assignments was to check the quality of helium gas for use in dirigibles. Jersey prefers that its men not put down roots, and Iron Mike never really has. He bounced around the Southwest, moved from New York to Florida to Canada, where in 1947, as Imperial Oil's production boss, he brought...