Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exterior appealed to Mies because "it is a very noble material and lasts forever if it is used in the right way." Expected to weather to a darker shade, except where the wind scours the edges bright, the bronze will be hand-wiped from top to bottom with lemon oil whenever it gets blotchy...
...Oil is not the only treasure that lies beneath the timeless sands of the Middle East. Temples, churches, palaces and whole cities wait for the digging; the finds of the past decade-at Harran and Arzawa in Turkey and Dura Europos in Syria-indicate how much more is to come. This week the government of Israel was opening to tourists the latest major discovery: the remains of one of the earliest Christian churches in the world...
...trouble with shipping is overexpansion coupled with a recession-and the glut of oil (see below). In 1957, tanker operators expanded their fleets by 5,500,000 deadweight tons, or 11%, to 49.6 million tons overall. But free-world oil production-and thus the need for tankers-will increase by 4% or less this year. Result: nearly 3,000,000 tons (6%) of the world's tanker fleet lie idle, and the total may mount to 4,000,000 tons by midsummer...
...oil companies have canceled plans to build big (70,000 tons and up) supertankers. Most shipyards are still booked solid into 1960. But the rest of the ship market has all but collapsed. Tanker charter rates have been cut more than 90% in one year, and prices for used ships are just as bad. "A year ago," said one ship broker, "it was impossible to buy a T-2 tanker for less than $4,250,000. Now it's impossible to get $1,000,000 for such a vessel...
Texas independent oil producers, hard-hit by the growing U.S. oil surplus, took stern measures to end their troubles. At their request, the Texas Railroad Commission last week cut back the state's crude production for March from an eleven-day-per-month operating rate to nine days-the lowest rate ever set by the 28-year-old commission. The flow of oil from Texas' 182,000 wells will be cut by 513,814 barrels daily...