Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oversold. Milward issued a statement passing the blame on to the Rolls-Royce Tyne engines that power BEA's 19 Vanguard propjets. Since mid-May, metal fragments have been showing up in the engine oil sumps, and they were found to come from compressor bearings. Pilots have had to call off flights just before takeoff because they have found oil pressure too low, and with as many as four Vanguards at a time in the shop for repairs, often due to a shortage of spare parts, the fault has had a snowball effect on BEA schedules. The newer three...
...ordinaire market is being transformed from a family trade into a highly mechanized industry. Blending and bottling are being automated, national-brand chains are muscling in on traditional local markets. Wine in cans, paper cartons, even greenish plastic bottles, which make the stuff look like motor oil, is being test-marketed. Distribution is still fragmented among 12,000 individual bottlers, but a shake-out of weaker firms seems assured...
Died. Ernest O. Thompson, 74, world's foremost oil conservationist as a 32-year member and often chairman of the all-powerful Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state's oil flow (and in turn sets the pace for 30 lesser oil-producing states), who started in the days of unlimited production and prices of 10? per bbl., quickly devised a system of monthly quotas for every Texas well; of pneumonia; in Amarillo...
...recent bombing raids on Hanoi and Haiphong did more than pour burning oil on the troubled waters of Vietnam. The decision to bomb the oil depots close to civilian centers sparked a domestic and international debate with highly explosive overtones...
...course, bombing the oil depots in the North, Craig said, won't help the Viet Cong. What bothers him more are the reports that from two to six civilians are killed for every Viet Cong on our regular bombing runs in the South. Craig added that it was perfectly possible that our bombing Hanoi and Haiphong had simply entrenched the resistance of the North Vietnamese. More crucial is whether we really know what we would negotiate for. If U.S. terms are a coalition government, Craig said, than the Viet Cong should be perfectly willing to negotiate with us because...