Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news that Mrs. Ronald Dean had shot and killed her 29-year-old Air Force technical sergeant husband in his parents' home near Oil City, Pa. shocked the members of that town's Optimist Club. It also shocked the club's happy, do-gooding ladies' auxiliary, a group called the Opti-Mrs. Together, they decided to help Lydia Dean. They passed the hat, ran notices in the newspapers, collected a defense fund of more than $2,000 from as far away as Florida. By the time the trial began in Venango County a fortnight...
...childish voice), then got married. Dean brought his wife to the U.S. in 1954, and late that year, she had a baby girl. In 1956 Dean was transferred to a base in England, but before embarking, he found a four-room apartment for her in Pleasantville (pop. 704), near Oil City and near the small home of his parents in Shamburg. Lydia and Dean wrote faithfully to each other for about a year. Then Dean stopped writing. When he returned to the U.S. four months later, he called Lydia, announced that he had got an English girl pregnant, wanted...
Lydia stuck to her story. After a six-day trial, a Venango County jury last week found her not guilty. Lydia Dean decided that she would stay on in Pleasantville, "to be near my husband." And in Oil City the Optimists and the Opti-Mrs. got together for a big victory celebration...
...production company, and in 1953 established Canadian Petrofina, which rapidly ran its assets up to more than $150 million, fully integrated from undeveloped leases to new gas stations (TIME, July 9, 1956), moved into fourth place (behind Imperial, British American and Shell) among Canada's gas and oil distributors...
...affiliate. With initial capitalization of $38 million, chiefly from U.S. investors, American Petrofina, which is controlled by the Belgian parent company through its control of the board of directors, bought control of Texas' Panhandle Oil for $25 million in 1956, and in 1957 picked up Texas' American Liberty Oil Co. for about $32 million...