Word: oilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consequences which are distinctly harmful. We must make sure, therefore, that our concern with the environment will keep pace with our technical capabilities. Human activities -whether by neglect or by accident or by intent-are constantly damaging the environment: Lake Erie might be called exhibit A; the Santa Barbara oil disaster, exhibit B; and there are many more examples. In addition, subtle changes are taking place in our atmosphere and oceans-with far-reaching but little-understood effects; e.g., on the Earth's climate. Solutions to these questions demand the best efforts of scientists from every discipline. In fact...
Michael L. Haider, Chairman, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey...
...current population of 4,000; but its architecture tends to be pedestrian, and most residents still work elsewhere. Reston, Va., 18 miles west of Washington, is probably the most esthetically appealing of America's new towns, but it has had serious financial troubles; last autumn, Gulf Oil took the 7,400-acre community over from its developer, Robert E. Simon...
...hotel's 72 rooms at a monthly rate of nearly $67,000. He was as wealthy as any king need be, and wealthier than almost any are these days. Reasonably accurate guesses pegged his bank balance at some $600 million, drawn from royalties on the oil that has been gushing for years from beneath the golden sands of Saudi Arabia...
...fact that once friendly, conservative military men like those in the Peruvian junta have become as vociferously anti-Yanqui as the left-wingers who spat at and stoned Richard Nixon a decade ago when he visited South America as Vice President. Peru's rulers have seized a U.S. oil subsidiary called International Petroleum Co., and refuse even to discuss reparations with parent Standard Oil of New Jersey. Indeed, the Peruvians claim that I.P.C. owes them another $17 million. Two weeks ago a perennial squabble over fishing rights flared again when a Peruvian navy vessel challenged U.S. tuna boats working...