Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received from the Judiciary Committee a House-passed bill restoring to state ownership all tidewater oil deposits (an issue over which Ed Pauley had stubbed his toe as candidate for Under Secretary of the Navy...
...after 10, when the frost was off the ground, Innocenzo started to work; he did not stop until dusk, when there was another meal of polenta, minestrone and watered wine. In the spring and summer, when the work was harder, there would be richer food: bread soaked in olive oil, sardines, pasta, greens, cheese and wine...
...clouded sky, 80 guests relaxed on wicker chairs and awaited the beginning of Madame Elanora Garnett's first postwar fashion show. Gathered on the broad, springy lawn of Madame's plushy home were leading lights of Shanghai's international set. The wife of a U.S. oil company manager came confidently attired in a new spring suit; an icy Russian brunette sat like a Raphael Madonna in a startling blue turban...
...Rubinstein moved the Chosen Corp. and himself into the U.S. He took the trust's money into Wall Street, in 1942 bought control of Panhandle for $187,000. Soon he turned it into a holding company controlling $6,600,000 in subsidiary oil, urban real estate, road-building and construction interests...
...Texas Co., Forest Oil Corp., Niagara Share Corp., United Gas Corp., La Gloria Corp., Gulf States Oil Co., Stone & Webster, Inc., Chicago Corp...