Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gulf of Tonkin. Six months later, it became a daily routine. The American campaign from the skies is running some 670 sorties a day over both North and South Viet Nam, rivaling that of the Korean War. For the third time, Navy jets returned to the big oil-storage tanks outside the port of Haiphong, claimed afterward that cumulative destruction of the complex now stood at 90%. Though monsoon clouds hampered raids north of the Red River, American planes elsewhere in Ho Chi Minh-land pounded 41 smaller fuel depots, bridges, flak sites and more than 230 barges...
...seen 30 SAM missiles ("They're long, very slender and a dirty-yellow color") zoom up in his vicinity, tangled in the longest dogfight with MIGs thus far in the war (17 minutes). Six weeks ago, Kasler flew as co-leader of the raid on Hanoi's oil installations...
...last year and an eighth five years ago, U.S. wheat stocks now stand at a 14-year low of just over 15 million metric tons, not enough for adequate protection against a domestic crop failure. The supply of soybeans, the dull yellow seed that goes into everything from vegetable oil to paint and constitutes the world's cheapest source of protein, equals just four months' consumption. Five years ago, Government warehouses were jammed with butter and cheese; now they hold none. Washington has had to go into the market to buy dried milk for its program of free...
Minor Jackpots. On that site ten years ago, an amateur woman digger turned up pieces of pottery jars that apparently had once held oil or wine snipped from the Eastern Mediterranean about A.D. 500. Since only a rich king or warlord could have imported such luxuries at the time, Camelot cultists were quick to speculate that Arthur's legendary headquarters were buried somewhere near by. Led by famed archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British scholars eventually mustered a "Camelot Research Committee" to raise cash and reconnoiter the 18-acre site...
...Olive oil will be in greater, rather than shorter supply. Olives for oil are grown all over Spain, and so far the Dacus has concentrated on the eating variety...