Word: oilfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even military necessity has economic limits. Last week in Washington, as not long before in the Yukon's Whitehorse, the Truman Committee was blood-hounding the question whether this farthest north oilfield was not also farthest north in cost...
...field. It would also build a pipeline of some 500 miles for the crude to a U.S. refinery at Whitehorse, plus gasoline lines to Skagway (on tidewater), Fairbanks, and the airfield at Watson Lake. In all. some 1,600 miles of pipeline, over the toughest terrain imaginable, plus an oilfield as industrially remote as Africa...
...standpoint, casualties alone do not win a war and the point is to win. They know more about Axis military and industrial strength than they do about secretive Russia's. They cannot get the use of Russian air bases for bombing raids like the one on the Ploesti oilfield-which could have been made from Russian soil with a shorter flight and heavier bomb loads...
...Announced that Argentina was dickering to get 36,000 tons of oilfield equipment from...
...State in 1907. Senator-Elect Moore, 71, is a onetime farm boy who worked his way through Chillicothe Normal as a janitor, taught rural schools, drove his horse nine miles to study law in Kansas City at night, finally struck it rich with a $2,000,000 Oklahoma oilfield...