Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swamped Raft. After that, the heaving arena between ship and plane became the scene of desperate endeavor. The Bibb laid down oil slicks. A bigger, 15-man raft was maneuvered up to the plane, loaded and gotten out to open water where a small boat pulled passengers aboard. Three loads-seven people, then ten, then eleven -jumped or were pushed out of the plane into the raft. It was wild work...
...wonder was that no one had thought of it before. Its originator (an engineer) got the idea when an accidental explosion embedded oil droplets in a victim's flesh without marking his skin. The implement was later perfected by a group at R. P. Scherfer Corp., Detroit...
Twenty-seven-year old Hugh G. Voorhies, Jr. '42 will come from his Sau Diego home back to the scene of undergraduate academic triumphs (a magna in Engineering Sciences) as the recipient of the Sheel Oil Fellowship for advanced study in physics, the University announced yesterday...
...Owned jointly by Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil...
...traditional dedication, the workers buried the heads of eight carabaos and eight goats among the wells, lifted their cupped hands toward heaven and intoned the solemn Alam Kabeh-"Greeting to Allah from all the world." The echo will soon be heard on the mainland when Palembang's oil begins to flow through the petroleum-starved East...