Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis have already come close to a direct clash with the Russians. During September's artillery exchange, they refrained from hitting the Suez oil refinery-rebuilt since Israeli artillery destroyed it last year-for fear of hitting Russian technicians. This time, the Israelis aimed their guns at the refinery anyway, setting fire to three oil storage tanks...
...companies, who form the nation's sixth largest industry, found demand outpacing supply. Then came a fillip from the Federal Power Commission in Washington. Ruling that the gas companies should bring the Louisiana deposits ashore individually, the FPC scotched the plans of a large group of 30 oil companies headed by Shell to build a single, cooperative system...
Beyond this first investment package, Ari has other plans-perhaps an oil concession, or shipyards in the Gulf of Corinth. The newlyweds are expected to spend much of each year in New York City and aboard the Christina, but Ari obviously will still be spending a good deal of time in Greece. And Jackie will remain what she became last week by virtue of her marriage to the lord of Skorpios-queen of one of Europe's last truly moneyed courts, even if it is an untitled...
...Sweden and Belgium also have sizable U.S. stakes ($217 million and $193 million), mostly in oil, glass, bearings, machinery and appliances...
...costs to cope with foreign competition, and also simplified many of the company's procedures. So successful were his programs that he was jumped over five senior vice presidents to the top of the firm that today is the fourth largest in the U.S. (after General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ford Motor...