Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embarrass Truman's close friend, California Oilman Ed Pauley (wrote Allen), ex-Attorney General Francis Biddle filed the famed California oil tidelands suit. "Harold Ickes, after failing to get assurance from Truman that he could remain in the Cabinet indefinitely, used the Pauley case as an excuse for quitting in a blaze of righteous indignation...
...decided (6-2) that the U.S. Government owns the oil-rich tidelands off the coast of California. Congress had once tried to decide the issue by awarding' all tidelands to the states (TIME, Aug. 5), but President Truman, vetoed the bill, to let the Supreme Court decide...
Then he recovered. He did not mean "should fight," he gulped. But if Middle Eastern oil was threatened by Russia, he was sure the U.S. "would fight...
...fully armed or equipped. This mighty power, restricted in range and striking force by Russia's lack of long-range aircraft, is the nightmare that haunts U.S. military strategists. Russia has the power on hand to sweep to the Channel, to the Persian Gulf and the oil areas, to the southern extremity of Korea, or through China. Obviously it is not in Russia's immediate calculations to make any such vast move, which would certainly bring on World War III. Military men feel that only an accident, e.g., a hasty, intemperate move by a Russian satellite, could precipitate...
...movie set, the cottage interior he intended to use.'Copying that on canvas, and painting the dawn stealing in the prop window, Fildes inserted the characters he had in mind: worried parents hovering in the shadows, their sick little girl feverishly sleeping in the light of an oil lamp, and the bearded doctor leaning over her, kindly and calm...