Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomson, launched a crunching head-on attack against Ticket-Mate Bill Proxmire. Reason: Proxmire invited Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to speak at Milwaukee's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on May 17, and even though Johnson could not come, Nelson took after him as the spokesman for Texas oil interests inimical to Wisconsin liberalism. Beyond that, Proxmire is losing the devotion of many fundamentally conservative Wisconsin independents for his high-spending recommendations in the Senate...
...Algiers. "If Algeria is separated from France," said he. "the Europeans get worried. But when Algeria becomes a really integrated part of France, the European minority knows that its rights will be protected by the government in Paris." As for the money to finance integration, Soustelle pointed to the oil and natural gas of the Sahara, then added: "Anyway, it will cost less than...
...mistake Nuri Pasha meant most to avoid was precipitating a showdown any sooner than necessary in the inevitable struggle for Middle East supremacy between the new Federation and Nasser's dynamic United Arab Republic, which has four times as many citizens but no oil wealth...
...security," Carson said, "is based on many considerations -our military posture, our overall economic and political strength, and our relationships with our friends and neighbors with whom we share a common danger. As administrator of the program it is my job to limit crude-oil imports in the interests of national security. My efforts are not, should not, and cannot be devoted to protection of the markets and profits of any individual. Nor can this be the function of the Federal Government in this highly complex field of crude-oil imports...
...industry's troubles, Carson added, come more from declining demand than from imports. "If all imports were stopped tomorrow, I do not see how that action would increase consumer demand. In a few years, we will be able to use every barrel of oil that we can produce, and probably every barrel we can import...