Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat, long light of a late afternoon last week, the oil exploration boat Submarex rode gently in the Pacific swell near the Southern California town of Redondo Beach. Below the water's surface. Professional Diver Eldon W. Smith, 31, began his ascent. Suddenly, the men on the Submarex intercom heard a scream tear from inside Smith's helmet: the diver, apparently rising too fast, was struck with caisson disease-knifelike jabs of pain caused by the accumulation of deadly nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream-the "bends...
...flag tanker, on Israel's charter and carrying a full cargo of Persian Gulf oil, sailed up the Gulf of Aqaba last week in a blinding sandstorm and anchored at the Israeli port of Elath. En route, in the Red Sea, a U.S. warship had spoken the tanker and asked it to identify itself. "When we said we were American and on our way to Elath," said the skipper, "the reply was, 'Good luck.' " As the tanker passed through the narrow and disputed Strait of Tiran, the captain ordered the flag dipped in salute to the UNEF...
Britain and France feel that they must be primarily concerned with protecting the supply of oil which they consider necessary for their national survival, he said. The United States, on the other hand, Schwadran asserted, believes that the Arabs are basically friendly to the West and that every effort must be made not to alienate them by some inept action...
Denies U.S. Lacks Oil...
...claim that the United States needs Middle Eastern oil because of dwindling supplies is "far from justified," Schwadran insisted. He said that the estimated reserves have increased in recent years due to new discoveries and improved technological ability...