Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only $489 million. Italy's budget would bear the brunt of this slash. All told, Italy would be cut $87 million (from $227 to $140 million), on the grounds that 1) her farmers were hoarding around a million tons of wheat, and 2) her outlook for olive oil production was much improved...
Last week, 2½ months behind schedule, Pilots Truman and Evans landed at Van Nuys Airport outside Los Angeles. Their trip had covered 22,275 miles, cost $2,000 including gasoline and oil (which they bought on Esso credit cards). They were given a heroes' welcome. George got a haircut, Cliff a kiss from Miss Van Nuys of 1947 (see cut). Back in Washington, their wives, who had expected them in September, were a bit frosty. Wired Mrs. Truman to Mr. Truman: "You're the luckiest guy in the world to have a wife like...
...only say we will fight and are preparing for victory." Azzam Pasha had just returned from a flying visit to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud. In Azzam Pasha's pocket, said aides, was Ibn Saud's promise to use most of his U.S. oil royalties (about $20,000,000 a year) to modernize his Bedouin army and to arm Palestinian Arabs for the war on Zionism...
...striking unions (out of the C.G.T.'s total of 38) and was issuing daily communiques. Two million workers were idle. More than a million tons of coal production had been lost; 253 ships were tied up in French ports, more than half of them laden with coal and oil. Since most of the rank & file preferred to remain at work, as the secret strike votes indicated, the Frachon committee met this opposition with violence and by denouncing the secret strike ballot as tending to "dislocate workers' unity...
...always stalled on the two-headed, green-eyed problem of sovereignty and national interest. Palestine security posed the very same problems that have always sapped the United Nations of its intended strength. The U.S. didn't want to offend, any more than possible, the wealthy owners of Arabian oil lands; any concentration of Russian troops in the Middle East seemed strategically unwise; and small nations refused to sacrifice their tiny armies to the cause of international police. The stakes riding on a successful partition of Palestine demand a safeguard beyond the efforts of a weak state militia. As the originator...