Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...innocuous personal effects in a warehouse-office building that also housed the New York branch of the FBI. Posing as a struggling artist (there were several in the building), the spy hung the studio walls with his own well-executed paintings-a wide-hipped nude, Harlem street scenes, an oil portrait that markedly resembled Khrushchev-stocked up on mystery novels and books on Degas and Van Gogh, sipped his brandy neat at the nearby Music Box bar. He read the local papers and, occasionally, The New Yorker. Sometimes he helped the building janitor make wiring repairs. Said one bemused neighbor...
...King's concrete accomplishments in Moscow, according to the official communique, added up to the creation of a joint Russian-Afghan trading mission, the granting to the Russians of the right to begin "disinterested" explorations for oil in the arid wastes of northern Afghanistan (a similar request by the French was rejected by the Afghans under Russian pressure in 1952) and an agreement to send more Afghan students to the U.S.S.R. for training...
HOWARD HUGHES is also target of trustbusters. Justice Department charged that his Hughes Tool Co. divided world markets to prevent import into U.S. of German-made oil and gas well-drilling equipment that would compete with him. Suit says that since 1950 Hughes has illegally pooled patents and consulted on prices with West Germany's Alfred Wirth...
...Louis Gilsonite Co. By wagon, then by railroad, the company hauled out sacks of Gilsonite, as the substance came to be known, to use in coloring black paints, waterproofing roofs, blacking inks and even paving streets. Eventually the company was bought by the Barber Asphalt Co. (now Barber Oil Corp.), which in 1946 teamed up with Standard Oil Co. of California to try to extract gasoline and high-purity coke from the Gilsonite...
...Major Field. There the water is drained off and the dried Gilsonite is fed into retorts from which flow 54,600 gal. of gasoline and at least 250 bbl. of fuel oil daily. Some 275 tons of high-grade metallurgical coke are obtained from the cracking process for sale at about $30 a ton to the coke-shy aluminum-smelting industry. So good is the gasoline obtained from Gilsonite that it has a higher octane rating than several premium leaded brands. American Gilsonite figures the cost of a barrel of its crude, laid down at the refinery...