Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides the resources that Iraq's oil and river-bottom lands will bring to the new Federation, it will have advantages of common frontiers and racial ties that Nasser's union conspicuously lacks. But Iraq is not keen to share its wealth with barren Jordan, and the Federation has been slow getting started. Iraq's King Feisal, 23, and his cousin Hussein. 22, of Jordan will both keep their crowns and the federal Parliament and Cabinet, controlling foreign and defense policies, will meet alternately in Baghdad and Amman. Still to be worked out: whether Iraq, which...
...After the attacks," said Frondizi, "there were oil slicks on the surface of the sea as when a submarine is damaged." Sonar gear aboard the Argentine ships established that the unidentified sub was a "high-speed" modern craft, i.e., U.S., British or Russian...
...going into space or to another planet when there is another world right beneath the waves, and one that is much more accessible in my lifetime." Unlike Cardinal, who sketches on dry land, Swanson has worked out a technique for drawing and coloring underwater. He uses a waterproof Japanese oil-base pastel stick on a specially coated paper often stiffened with spar varnish to keep it from wrinkling...
...uses for nuclear power. To be built by New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, N.J., N.S. Savannah will cost $40 million by the time it is completed in 1960. will serve as the model for private shippers who are increasingly anxious to get into the field. Cities Service. Gulf Oil and Standard Oil (N.J.) are all interested, and the Maritime Administration hopes to have the first nuclear-powered tanker in the water by 1961. One possible formula to help private industry get into the new field: the U.S. Government will pay the difference between conventional and nuclear vessels, at least...
From the Grill. In Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, a hippopotamus clopped into a gas station, thunderously knocked over empty oil drums, hit the road, chewed $200 damage out of a passing...