Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ride a railway train from Canton to the Amur River under a single flag ; possible to irrigate the fields of Hunan with the waters of Szechwan; possible to warm the homes of Shanghai with the coal of Shansi, possible to fuel the trucks of Yünnan with the oil of Sinkiang. The vision is too great, the hope too high for any group or any individual to dare to flout it with impunity...
This pleased everyone. The Russians, because they would participate in Mediterranean trusteeships; the British, because the U.S. would underwrite the preservation of Britain's Mediterranean lifeline. The U.S. protected its oil interests in the Middle East. Italy, happy at being allowed to present its case to the Council, hoped some day to be appointed the administering power of one or more of its old colonies...
Last week, shrewd, poker-faced Harry Ford ("Sinco") Sinclair, 69, President of Sinclair Oil Corp., grabbed it. From Haile Selassie he got a 50-year concession giving him exclusive rights to all the oil he can find in all of Ethiopia's 350,000 square miles...
Actually, the deal was very much an if, as & when proposition. No oil has ever been discovered in Ethiopia, although oil men have a strong feeling that important pools may exist there. But for jowly Sinco, who loves to bet on anything, it was a good gamble. By putting up small stakes, he stands to collect handsomely if Ethiopia has oil. In any case, oilmen guessed that Sinco has his eyes on Ethiopia's potentially oil-rich neighbor, Eritrea, which Haile Selassie covets...
...Tartu beach, who worked neck-deep in the freezing, oil-fouled water day after grueling day, were not particularly brave men, but they came to regard the regular Jap air raids as something in the nature of a diversion. These were the sad sacks of 1942 who would go on to beach LCIs at Saipan and Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa, who would come back to America to find themselves half-strangers in their own land...