Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that German chemists reduced the cost of synthetic oil below the cost of oil from the ground-a scientific triumph that would mean big things in the postwar world...
...Allied arrows of invasion in the Pacific have headed inevitably (if sometimes deviously) toward Japan. Last week, at the bottom of the Allied line of attack, Australians jabbed a small but significant arrow away from Japan and straight toward the Japs' stolen empire. Landing on the swampy, oil-rich island of Tarakan off Borneo's northeast coast, Aussie troops drove the Japanese off an airstrip. Soon Allied planes would be using it to work over the South China Sea, Borneo and The Netherlands East Indies...
Tarakan, a triangular island some 15 miles long and eleven miles wide, was a rich prewar fuel-oil reserve. Some of its product was so pure it could be pumped directly into ships' bunkers. The oil was a big long-range item, but it was Tarakan's airstrip that was the immediate military attraction...
...chance that the trained oilmen and their equipment were on hand for the Tarakan invasion. For more than a year they had quietly been gathering in the Southwest Pacific, where they stood by in readiness to join the first strike at any one of the oil-producing islands of the rich Netherlands East Indies. As the engineers waited, they watched with satisfaction the growing stockpile of oil-well machinery arriving from...
...military were confident that within four to eight months they could do what the Japs had been unable to accomplish during their long occupation: restore Tarakan's oil production to its prewar level of some 400,000 barrels a month...