Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months Allied bombers have been working over Borneo, where the Japanese sit hopelessly on some of the world's highest-grade oil deposits. On May 1 Australian troops landed on Tarakan Island, just off Borneo's northeast coast, where they are still fighting Japanese...
...court action in Ottawa involved Rothschild-owned shares of the Royal Dutch Co. (oil). Worth 1,534,000 Dutch florins, they had been deposited in a Montreal bank in 1939 for safekeeping. But when the Baron reached the U.S. and asked for his florins, he found they had been impounded by Canada's Custodian of Enemy Property. The Baron could have his money, said the custodian, only if he would pay a $21,844.16 handling charge. The Baron appealed. He claimed that he had never been an enemy of Canada, that therefore Canada had no right to take custody...
...clear moonlight of Thursday, pathfinder B-29s woke Tokyo up with 100-lb. oil bombs to mark the first target-Shinagawa, in the city's southeastern outskirts. Behind them thundered more than 550 bombers, the greatest force of B-29s yet used, with 4,500 tons of incendiaries. Almost two hours later, when the planes were gone, an estimated 3.2 square miles of Shinagawa, packed with freight yards, airplane-parts factories and war plants, were a raging blaze. Remarked one U.S. officer: "[It is] the most vulnerable combination of productivity, congestion and inflammability to be found anywhere in Japan...
There was rarely any money in the Norris home. Young George remembered well the day the first coal-oil lamp arrived. He gathered and shelled hazelnuts for months to earn enough money to buy an accordion. When he got it, the first tune he played was Jesus, Lover of My Soul...
Banana Royal. In Philadelphia, the lordly British Admiralty sniffed at the hydrogen sulphide in the air, ordered all officers docking there for the summer to prevent tarnish by painting their gold braid, buttons, and decorations with banana oil...