Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before the first U.S. bombing raids on oil depots at Hanoi and Haiphong June 29, North Viet Nam's leaders threatened to stage "war criminal" show trials of captured American airmen. Last week, after a strident propaganda barrage from Hanoi, that threat seemed likely to become reality...
Rabbiters & Corpses. In South and Western Australia, census takers from Humbug Scrub to Boologooroo prowled the inner edge of the Great Australian Bight in search of opal gougers, oil drillers, boundary riders and randomly wandering rabbiters. One truck driver from Adelaide was asked to deliver and collect questionnaires on the lonely "No Tree" Plain when he went out to pick up rabbits from the wandering hunters. He got five tons of rabbits and 200 questionnaires...
...torn nation. This week Ongania is expected to announce a series of "directives" spelling out a program of austerity and reform. Reports say they will include a sharp cutback on state employment, special export credits to stimulate foreign trade, more public housing, complete overhaul of Illia's disastrous oil policy that forced Argentina to import petroleum for the first time in years, and reorganization of the country's food-distribution system to eliminate middlemen and help blunt the cost-of-living spiral...
...Established in 1918 by the late Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, widow of the oil tycoon. Most of its grants, which have totaled as much as $7,000,000 a year, are given for medical education and community health...
Hughes, inheritor of a $16 million fortune derived from oil-drilling equipment, had become chief stockholder of ten-year-old TWA in 1939. He and President Jack Frye pushed TWA into technological airline leadership with such innovations as the feathering propeller, the automatic pilot, wing and propeller deicers, and wing flaps for shorter and safer landings. Yet flashes of brilliance and even the visionary decision to put TWA into the overseas trade could not make up for the caprices of Howard Hughes, whom an associate once dubbed "the spook of American capitalism." He abhorred the details of decisions involving money...