Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acute housing shortage. Best of all, "the Soviet Union in the next 15 years can not only catch up with the U.S. in the production of basic items but also outstrip it." Some Khrushchev estimates of Russia's 1972 production: steel, 110 to 132 million tons; oil, 2.4 to 2.7 billion barrels; coal, 715 to 825 million tons; electric power, 800 to 900 billion...
...production last year: steel, 115 million tons; oil, 2.6 billion barrels; coal, 575 million tons; electric power, 684 billion...
...French army sergeant who styles himself "Colonel" Amar Ouamrane. One of the original planners of the 1954 uprising that launched the rebellion, Ouamrane has a reputation for savage ferocity, is currently coordinating military activities on the increasingly important "Sahara front," where last week rebels attacked a party of French oil prospectors and killed 24. "Remember," said one FLN leader, "that even a minor Saharan incident will shake French and foreign-oil interests abroad." Ouamrane's chief of staff is bespectacled Belkacem Krim, 35, a ruthless, fearless former French army NCO who has been sentenced to death four times. Under...
Brazil self-righteously spurned offers by foreign companies with technical know-how to develop its petroleum resources, instead gave the job to a government monopoly. Result: Brazil produced only 12% of its 1956 requirements, had to spend $268 million on oil imports...
...oil industry, which helped pioneer the new science of isotopes, will save about $225 million this year by using isotopes in a dozen ways. Refineries employ them to trace the flow of catalysts through craeking plants, Isotopes serve as tireless sentinels to warn of hidden leaks in pipes, as sensitive controls to separate oil from gasoline in pipelines. Oilmen merely insert a shot of an isotope after each batch is pumped in; when the radioactive cocktail reaches interchange points, the isotope automatically activates valves that shunt the crude and the gasoline in proper directions...