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Word: oiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Destroyer Escort. In Claremore, Okla., two bootleggers transporting 96 gal. of whisky in their 1958 car were caught despite 1) a carpet tack dispenser between the rear wheels, 2) a trap door designed to dump 10 Ibs. of tacks on the road in deeper emergencies, and 3) a pressurized oil tank that produced a thick smoke screen from the exhaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...Civil Rights? Texan Johnson did not mention certain other prospects for a new Congress that might think it had to live up to its liberal billing: automatic death for any natural gas bill, possible reduction of the Texas-cherished 27½% depletion allowance on oil income, an end to conservative and Southern hopes to limit the Supreme Court's powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ahead of the Wind | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Despite all the emotional appeal of Arabic unity to illiterate and hungry people, there were powerful reasons for independence: Baghdad's traditional rivalry with Cairo, neighboring Syria's melancholy experience as a Nasser satellite, the fact that Iraq's $200 million-a-year oil royalties would probably all go to oilless Egypt. Besides, Iraq's more than a million Kurds, a restless minority, have no desire to be drowned in a wider Arab sea. A month ago Kassem, unwilling to sit too hard on the only fellow conspirator privy to the timing of the overthrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Helpful Communists | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...specific issue is a simmering deal to build a $15 million plant to refine Venezuelan crude oil in Jamaica. Barbados-born, U.S.-naturalized Oilman Frank Desmond St. Hilaire proposes to finance a 16,500-bbl.-a-day refinery at Kingston, bankrolled by the U.S.'s Colorado Oil & Gas Corp. But Jamaica's legislature must pass a bill giving him a 15-year monopoly on oil refining in Jamaica-plus enticing tax concessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST INDIES: Island's Rights | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...rest after winning the governorship of New York State, Nelson Rockefeller went to a country that looms large in his career. Venezuela is the home of Creole Petroleum Corp., most profitable affiliate of the Rockefeller-founded Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), and he once served on Creole's board. But Venezuelans rarely think of him as an oilman; instead, he is the single man who has striven hardest to raise the country's standard of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Rocky's Second Home | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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