Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...island which had been only a Pan American Clipper stop before the war, five great airfields were clawed out of the hills and jungles. In & out of them flew mail, passengers, plasma, wounded. From the great asphalt acres roared the Super-forts of the 21st Bomber Command. Where Standard Oil had once maintained a few oil tanks, there were now enough facilities to hold four days' output of all the oil wells in Oklahoma...
...Oil producers were unable to meet the demands of Russia because of the slowness of the Soviet-operated railroads. For each delay the quota of oil demanded was raised. The oil producers thought that the squeeze was planned...
Zhukov: "We have some German synthetic oil plants that we captured. . . . We have been unable to get them operating. I understand you have some running. . . . Could some of our experts come over...
...State Department's decision to allot 500,000 tons of petroleum to Argentina was no oil on troubled Pan-American waters...
Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew last week explained the oil deal: 1) the petroleum shipments were in exchange for vegetable oils, which Argentines are now using as fuel; 2) 80% of the petroleum would be transported in Argentine tankers...