Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Price of Oil...
...joint U.S. -British objectives in the Middle East [TIME, Dec. 16]: "One angry Briton said: I [Truman] has sold your oil for a mess of New York votes...
...saddened Jew replies: the British have bought their oil with several million Jewish lives, and are for once keeping up their payments...
...with Wildcats. Labor was only the most immediate of the tremendous problems facing Bermúdez. Pemex had fallen far behind on distributing its oil, and in discovering and developing new fields. On distribution, Bermúdez was hamstrung by the sad state of Mexican railways, but he had schemes to overcome that disability. One top-priority project: an $8,000,000 pipeline to bring natural gas from Poza Rica on the Gulf to Mexico City's industries and households. He also hopes to develop new fields that will give Mexico oil for at least 50 years to come...
...Hope. The leaders in developing the new sulfa treatment were Dr. Faget and world-famed Leprologist George H. McCoy, head of Louisiana State University's preventive medicine department. (They long ago dropped the traditional chaulmoogra oil as worthless.) Because leprae bacilli are tough, and most of Carville's patients are in advanced stages of the disease, recovery is slow. But heavy daily injections of Promin (or doses of Diasone or Promizole pills) gradually clear out the bacilli, reduce swellings, heal lesions...