Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico's high-riding oil workers got a jolt. When riggers and refinery men walked out last week, in one of their periodic 24-hour stoppages to force wage concessions, the new Alemán Government cracked right back. Troops were called out to guard property of Pemex, the Government's oil monopoly. Furthermore, deliveries went on: jeeploads of soldiers with machine guns at the ready convoyed gas trucks through the capital's streets...
Adios! The man charged with cutting this new pattern for the oil industry bears a stamp new to Mexican politics. When sad-eyed, ramrod-backed Antonio Bermúdez was treasurer of the state of Chihuahua, an acquaintance went to him and said: "Antonio, my friend, I want to import several carloads of alcohol from the U.S., and if I pay taxes on it it will be very expensive. . . ." Bermúdez usually low-pitched voice rose to a roar: "If I invite you to my house for dinner then you can call me Antonio and call me your friend...
...Washington the logistics of the oil deal seemed eminently satisfactory. If Europe were supplied from the Middle East, Western Hemisphere oil could stay in the Western Hemisphere. More Latin-American oil would be available...
...lessen the drain on U.S. reserves. Another factor not lost on Washington: Arabian oil could-and would-provide ample fuel for the Navy in the Middle East. As to diplomatic ramifications of the deal, the Department of State merely said: "It's just a business deal...
Consumer's Research. In Clifton, N.J., Roland Michaud, 2½, discovered the family medicine chest, ate 32 aspirin tablets, drank a bottle of cough medicine, huge doses of castor oil and cod liver oil, had his stomach pumped out, felt fine...