Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reputation as a special friend of the Arabs, Franco secretly agreed to cede Southern Morocco to the Moroccans some time in the future. He has since changed his mind. Reason: prospectors have found indications that the sandy wastes of Spanish Sahara, like the French Sahara farther east, may hold oil, a resource to be found nowhere else in Spanish territory. At week's end. Franco rushed 3,500 more troops into Ifni and had beefed up his Spanish West Africa garrison to 5,000 with reinforcements from the mainland. Morocco's partisans, regular or irregular, were not going...
...happened? From musty records, school officials found that Mayo Buckner was brought in to the state school by his mother in October 1898. (It was snowing, Buck remembers, and the train they rode from Lenox, 60 miles southwest of Des Moines, was lit by coal-oil lamps.) Answering a questionnaire, Mrs. Buckner conceded that Mayo was truthful, tenderhearted, had a good memory, was quick to learn his ABCs and children's verses, could pick out any tune he heard on the family organ. Nonetheless, Mrs. Buckner felt, and the family doctor agreed, that Mayo belonged in Glenwood because...
...side of an uncrossable road. But on Oklahoma's new Will Rogers Turnpike, the drive-on stomachache will be eased , next month with a unique drive-under restaurant that spans the highway, allows motorists to enter from either side. Built for $1,400,000 near Vinita by Continental Oil Co., which has filling stations at both sides, the structure is many windowed so that customers can gaze at the fast driving below while dining above...
...Catania industrial zone, a $4,000,000 steel fabricating plant went into operation. Nearby, close to Messina, work started on a $5,000,000 plant to .produce frozen orange juice. At Augusta, a ghost port barely five years ago, a third major project was completed, a multimillion-dollar oil refinery with a capacity of 2,800,000 tons annually and new docks for 45,000-ton oil tankers. At Enna, in Sicily's depressed interior, Milan Edison was putting the finishing touches on a $16 million chemical plant. All told, since 1948 nearly $500 million in new capital...
...biggest moneymaker of all is Sicily's booming young oil industry. Instead of throttling foreign oil exploration by setting up a state-run monopoly such as Italy's ENI (TIME, Sept. 2), Sicily encouraged Gulf Oil Corp. with a deal that one U.S. oilman calls "the best terms of any oil company operating anywhere in the world." Instead of the standard fifty-fifty split, Gulf gets 80% of all profits, has pumped $50 million into Sicilian oil development. The payoff: wells that will produce 1,650.000 tons of oil next year, some 15% of Italy's total...