Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shirt-sleeved audience sweltering in the frowzy, faded yellow hall on Atlanta's Ivy Street included labor leaders from Texas oil fields, Alabama steel furnaces, North Carolina textile mills. They had gathered to be knighted for a new crusade. Up rose portly, grizzled Van Bittner, 61-year-old veteran organizer and director of the C.I.O.'s drive to unionize the South, to make the dedication...
...religious significance of the Holy Land to many peoples; it examined the economic importance and limitations of Palestine, but it also remembered the words of the original mandate and the faith placed in Great Britain by the League; it rejected the 1937 Peel Commission's contention that might (and oil) make right, but it refused, too, to put its trust in a short-sighted, if definite, series of figures...
...Committee points a finger, too, at Britain, the United States, and the United Nations. It tells the British to fulfill their trust, to cease mouthing phrases about the necessity of disarming the weak, oil-less Jews, to admit that it is the powerful Moslem states which they fear; it asks Americans to give more than empty words; it challenges the UN to assume the burden its charter claims. The honesty and logic of the report of the Committee of Inquiry will make its conclusions, conscience-like, dog the nations and their leaders until the long-sought solution to the problem...
National reporting--Edward A. Harris of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "for his articles on the tidewater oil situation, which contributed to the nationwide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of Edwin W. Pauley as Under-secretary of the Navy...
...Panhandle Producing & Refining Co., Midway-Victory Oil Corp., Warren Bros. Co., James Stewart & Co., Inc., Jackson Heights Properties Inc., to mention some...