Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SACRAMDNTO, CAL.-Oil-fouled beaches and "the right to breathe clean air" have made conservation a heated legal and political issue in California...
...many small ones that contribute to regional air and water pollution. In addition, a court injunction against potential as well as present polluters still requires proof that irreparable damage is likely, a difficult task when it comes to such highly technical puzzles as last January's Santa Barbara oil...
...that the college had closed its admissions for the year, he nonetheless so impressed the authorities that they made room for him-and gave him a scholarship as well. To help put himself through college, he worked as a postal clerk, waiter, shoe salesman and mess boy on an oil tanker; he also wrote business articles for the New York Herald Tribune...
...wave of investment speculation in its history. In Melbourne's new 26-story exchange building last week, somber-suited businessmen, workmen in overalls and pig-tailed secretaries jostled each other in the gold-carpeted gallery to watch brokers screaming for 100, 200 and 500 shares of mining and oil companies. One day, trading on the Sydney exchange reached a record of nearly 36 million shares...
...BLACK CAMELS by Ronald Johnston. 216 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $4.95. Sheik-to-sheik high jinks among the oil-rich and rapacious Bedouins...