Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snap, Crackle, Pop! In Granite, Colo., Bill Lane, unable to start his frigid truck, built a fire under it, ignited the garage, exploded an oil barrel, blew the roof off the garage, injured a friend, splattered the west side of Granite with burning oil, brought out the Leadville Fire Department, burned his house down...
...beyond those scapegoats. Pearl Harbor was no isolated event: it was the culmination of a foreign policy which had resulted in war. The U.S., to gain time for an inevitable war with Japan-inevitable unless Japan was to be allowed to conquer Asia-had appeased Japan by selling her oil and scrap iron, and then had begun to squeeze Japan by gradually cutting off these supplies...
...Navy Department's Elk Hills oil deal, through which valuable Government oil lands were to be "given away" to Standard Oil of California...
...Achtung . . . Achtung . . . Achtung. . . ." The bleak warning rolled endlessly from German loudspeakers as the Allied air offensive rolled endlessly on against German oil and transport...
...last week 1,250 U.S. heavies, escorted by 1,000 fighters, bombed four synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. Only a dozen German fighters were seen, and four of these were shot down; but the flak was the thickest and deadliest that U.S. crews had ever encountered. "Flak burst in a mass," said one radioman, "a forest of it so dense that we could only get occasional glimpses of the formations ahead of us. It was a solid wall at the target...