Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court. But the U.S. Government was not a party to any of them, and the nearest approach to a mineral-rights case was one involving Florida sponge-fishers. There was not much money in sponges, and at that time (1912) the U.S. was getting along on very little oil...
Ickes Agrees. Even after it was discovered that oilfields ran out beneath the sea and oil could be recovered profitably from them, it was taken for granted that the states owned the submerged lands. So the states leased some of them to oil companies. They took out the rich oil and richer profits, and paid moderate royalties for the privilege. Even Curmudgeon Harold Ickes, who as Secretary of the Interior seldom agreed with anybody, agreed in 1933 that this seemed to be "the settled...
...fight was termed "uneventful" by members of the seven-man crew. Possible trouble was avoided narrowly when, on landing, an oil leak was discovered in the number one engine. The leak apparently developed just as the plane was coming in to land at the Lockheed Air Terminal...
WASHINGTON--President Truman vetoed legislation to give the states title to oil-rich tidelands, asserting that the issue was one for the Supreme Court to decide...
Many a U.S. doctor dreads the monthly appearance of the Reader's Digest: chances are that Paul de Kruif will be tub-thumping for some new variety of snake oil. And chances are that a lot of patients will clamor for the new remedy, then grumble when told it is dubious or premature...