Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign departments of Standard Oil of New Jersey and Shell Oil got on the wire, each offering to build a chain of super-service stations, hotels and numerous motels, along the drowsy highways of the islands...
Outstanding feature of the new submarine was the underwater engine. It was an application of the Walther cycle engine, a new German device using hydrogen peroxide in place of gasoline or Diesel oil. Most apparent weakness: the high cost, in money and storage space, of hydrogen peroxide...
...record was made almost by accident. The owner of the Lazy D.W.A. ("Gus") Delaney, 51, millionaire oilman (he made a reported $5,000,000 in the Fitts oil pool), had not intended to sell Del Zento. He changed his mind when he heard that there were three hot bidders on his ranch...
...vocal group of U.S. oilmen has urged that the war-built Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines should either be shut down or converted to carry natural gas. Reason: the oilmen have heavy investments in tankers, which might find it hard to compete with the pipelines in carrying oil from Texas...
...Murphree, vice president of Standard Oil Development Corp., who had the persuasive ability, when anyone doubted that the bomb could be made, of making him see the feasibility of the entire program...