Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs slowed from 20 knots to twelve. They hesitated as their leading ships caught fire; then they turned and ran. In a 40-minute hail of shellfire at ranges of eight to ten miles, and a later hail of bombs as they trailed oil through the Mindanao Sea, the Japs lost the battleships Huso and Yamasiro. MacArthur proclaimed that every ship was sunk; Nimitz hedged, saying all units were "sunk or decisively defeated...
...Oil President J. Howard Pew attacked the Anglo-American oil agreement as a cartel. "What is this," cried he, "but a cartel? Such arrangements in international trade are exactly what we call at home monopolistic practices or combinations in restraint of trade...
Last week, contrary evidence was apparent on almost every college gridiron: pink-cheeked freshmen scurried and whirled out of the T formation to touchdown after touchdown. More than 50% of college coaches now start their football alphabet with a capital T. The other half burn midnight oil devising ways & means to stop it. Few have succeeded...
...oil-burning homes on the eastern seaboard will get enough oil this winter. There will be enough oil, in fact, so that the nearly 200,000 citizens who patriotically converted from oil to coal-and then found there was not enough coal, either-will soon be allowed to convert back to oil again...
...Fuel Oil is up because of better transportation distribution (chiefly pipelines). Production has caught up with military needs. If all the former oil users reconvert this winter, oilmen can supply the extra oil which will be needed, but only 30% are expected to reconvert...