Word: oilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...natural-gas mixer that fits on top of the carburetor and feeds the new fuel to the present combustion chambers. A dashboard control permits the driver to switch from natural gas in polluted areas to regular gasoline on the open road. With natural gas, the company claims, engine oil lasts up to a year, sparkplugs fire for 50,000 miles, and valve jobs are usually unnecessary. Better yet, 100 cu. ft. of natural gas gives about 15% more mileage than a gallon of gasoline and costs about 63% less...
...lines and 15 Teletypes at his disposal, Center Director Robert Citron, 37, can reach investigators almost anywhere in the world within minutes after an alert. By last week the center had reported more than 199 major short-lived phenomena, including 41 earthquakes, 26 volcanic eruptions, 29 fireballs, 20 major oil spills, ten animal migrations and one red tide (a strange discoloration of the seas caused by a sudden spread of tiny marine organisms). Fifty-one of these events were important enough to warrant full-scale scientific investigations...
...corporation tries to take control of a big U.S. firm, however, Washington immediately starts sounding the alarm. That was the cynical conclusion drawn by many Europeans last week from the U.S. Justice Department's announcement that it would sue to prevent British Petroleum from acquiring control of Standard Oil (Ohio). In fact, much to the chagrin of the State Department, Justice lawyers appeared to be mechanically applying their strict interpretation of antitrust law to what they saw as just another merger-without appreciating that this merger was special enough to call for more delicate handling...
...subtleties of U.S. antitrust policy were largely lost on the cartel-minded Europeans, who are used to far less severe trustbusting, if any at all. Die Welt of Hamburg voiced suspicion that the U.S. market is a closed shop to Europe. In Britain, which has never refused a U.S. oil company's application to enter its markets, the reaction was especially bitter. Some members of Parliament hinted at retaliation against U.S. business in Britain. Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart protested to Secretary of State William Rogers...
Prosciutto and Melon. The disputed merger is special because British Petroleum is 49% owned by the U.S.'s staunchest foreign ally, the British government. Equally important, BP stands to benefit hugely from its oil finds on Alaska's North Slope. BP has discovered reserves estimated at an enormous 5 billion barrels, or about 25% of the total believed to lie under that barren region. Seeking marketing outlets for its crude, a BP subsidiary last March bought approximately 8,250 East Coast filling stations from Sinclair Oil...