Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...water pistols. The junior gunmen got the idea from some of their fathers, who used the same weapons on women's legs at the American Legion Convention in Manhattan. But they had improved on the older generation's technique: they loaded up with ink, perfume, turpentine, ammonia, oil, whiskey, beer and bleaching fluids...
...April 1946, while Russian troops occupied Persia's northern province of Azerbaijan, Premier Ahmad Gavam notified Ivan V. Sadchikov, Russian Ambassador to Persia, that the Persian Government agreed that the two Governments should establish a joint company "to explore and exploit oil-producing territories" in northern Persia...
Last week (one year behind schedule), Gavam reported on the oil negotiations to the Majlis (Parliament), whose consent is necessary for any foreign exploitation of Persian oil. He clearly implied that the Russian had held a pistol at his head in 1946. Now the pistol was gone, and Persia was sure of U.S. friendship. An emboldened Majlis voted 102-to-2 to declare the Premier's oil negotiations with Russia null & void. The Majlis went on to resolve that Persia would explore and develop her own oil resources, without any foreign assistance. This is not likely to happen...
...climbing mountains to make a study of undersea rocks. Last week Dr. Norman D. Newell, of New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University, was studying fossil seashells he had just brought back from the Peruvian Andes. They told him about the strata (possibly oil-bearing) deep under the Amazon Basin hundreds or thousands of miles away. They also suggested that an ancient ice age once chilled the sea water right across the equator...
Temperate Life. All this was good news for the oil companies. Petroleum is believed to come from the dead bodies of minute animals sinking to the bottom of shallow seas. If the same marine fauna flourished in both the U.S. and South America, there should be good oil prospects in the Amazon Basin as well as in Texas...