Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were seized in Indonesian waters. Dutch property transfers were placed under stringent control. In Djakarta the Nederlandse Cultuurbank and the last of the "Big Five" Dutch export-import firms were taken over by Indonesian management. The central government ordered some 500 Dutch agricultural estates throughout the islands (sisal, palm oil, spices) placed under the supervision of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture...
Through the week there was no violence and there were no anti-Dutch incidents. In Djakarta Dutchmen lolled in rattan chairs on their verandas, purposefully ignoring the sump-oil insults smeared on their house walls a fortnight ago. To counteract charges that the Dutch were being physically hustled out of Java, the government refused to allow foreign airlines to lay on special planes, made clear that the ejection of the Dutch would be gradual and proper...
...OIL...
...This week the moose-v.-man issue gets even hotter as the Interior Department opens public hearings in Washington to hear the objections to its new leasing rules. Chances are that the oilmen and conservationists will work out a compromise because there is believed to be just too much oil in Kenai to let it lie there. The Fish and Wildlife Service will demand guarantees that the oilmen protect the moose by routing their roads around rather than through the moose land, by keeping oil from wells from polluting the marshes. Oilmen are expected to accept these conditions...
...Charles E. Spahr, 44, executive vice president of Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) since 1955, was chosen president to succeed Clyde T. Foster, 64, who continues as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. The youngest president in Sohio history, Spahr graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Kansas in 1934 and from Harvard Business School in 1938. He worked briefly for Phillips Petroleum Co., joined Sohio in 1939 as a pipeline engineer before going to Burma in World War II as an Army Corps of Engineers major in charge of pipeline construction. Back at Sohio, he took...