Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which set some of us wondering--what did "they" do in '69 that helps us every day? In case you wonder who the two morons who wrote the column are, you will be able to recognize us by our bleary eyes. for some time. We dug into "this fascinating oil business" in preparation for Friday's mid-term...
...sleet-streaked weather a fleet of 400 U.S. Eighth Air Force fighters ripped out to strafe oil storage depots in the Munich area and at Hanau (near Frankfurt). To the Germans the targets were important enough to send up fighters-for the first big-scale air battle in three weeks. Results: 86 Nazi aircraft destroyed; 16 U.S. lost. The same day a fleet of 650 U.S. heavy bombers, protected by 300 fighters, flew up from Italy to the Vienna area. Again the target was rocket-bomb fuel supplies...
More important even than the Road was the 2,000-mile pipeline that went with it. Already the line, which carries both gasoline and oil, had been laid far into Burma. It had had steady use, had paid off at the fighting fronts with release of planes and transport from fuel chores. It now crossed three rivers, must still cross several more. Once completed, it would also free Hump flyers and the Road's truckers into China for transport of guns, munitions and food. Thousands of tons of ammunition and artillery await the day in India's stockpiles...
...president who fails to dominate, conciliate or knuckle under to his political superiors. At a State Senate investigation of the ouster of University of Texas' earnest, liberal President Homer P. Rainey by the politically-appointed Board of Regents (TIME, Nov. 13), Regent Orville Bullington, a rich cattle and oil man, belatedly produced what he apparently considered conclusive evidence of ex-President Rainey's incompetence...
...Stockbreeders pay great attention to the sires of their cattle. We should attend to our fathers," said London's Dr. George De Swiet last week. He told a working women's conference that he himself took a special diet (emphasis on cod-liver oil and orange juice) before marriage, and recently advised his son to do the same...