Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglo-U.S. heavy bomber forces searched the remnants of the Reich for targets last week, and found moderately good hunting: rail yards, airfields, oil and ordnance depots, an explosives plant, shipyards and shipping, U-boat pens. One day when U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters attacked airfields in the Berlin area, the Luftwaffe reacted violently, sending up the biggest swarms of jet planes the Americans had ever seen. All over the blue sky, twisting white vapor trails mingled with the black streaks of burning, falling planes...
...only a few shots; they wounded a sailor in the neck, a soldier in the hand and nicked the brow of the task force's dashing commander, Colonel Robert H. Soule. Then, while the soldiers covered all ports, the LCM pumped 1,800 gallons of gasoline and oil into the vents; engineers packed 85 pounds of TNT in one leaky vent, 600 pounds in another...
...aged, lost his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, and wore a pepper & salt wig decidedly too small for him. Rockefeller asked him the population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they don't sell enough oil in Spain." When Strong bought a cord of wood, Rockefeller studied it in the basement, and said, "Charles . . . that isn't a cord of wood. When I was a young fellow I used to cut a cord of wood and I know what it looks like...
...crumbling under the blast of 500-pound demolition bombs, they could almost read what was happening to them everywhere. Step by step General Douglas MacArthur was wresting away the Philippines. Last week his men moved south to Sanga Sanga and Bongao islands, only 30 miles from Britain's oil-rich Borneo, the island that was to have stoked Japan's factories. Bit by bit, their stolen empire was falling to ruins...
...When he finished studying in Rome and Salzburg (1938), he shrewdly left Eastern music centers, to return to the Southwest where there is more musical room-at-the-top. He took over the struggling, WPA-financed Oklahoma State Symphony, gave its discouraged musicians new enthusiasm. The big oil men who had sneered at the WPA's "Roosevelt fiddlers" liked Alessandro's orchestra and kept it going when the Federal funds stopped. This year they will raise $165,000 to pay for next season's music. (Alessandro needs a big budget because he insists on free concerts...