Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anchored bow to stern, and their sea cocks opened; the scuttled ships formed a new sea wall. A few days after the first ship docked at Cherbourg, the first train pulled out with supplies. By last week, 20 trains were leaving daily. Quays, warehouses and cranes had been installed, oil storage tanks repaired, thousands of square yards of concrete poured for open-air storage dumps...
...feats were performed, deliveries had to be made to a ravenous customer who demanded over a million gallons of gasoline a day-and who kept changing his address. By last week 700 miles of pipeline had been laid. From the end of the pipelines, tank trucks carry gas and oil 100 miles to distribution points, where fuel is transferred to five-gallon cans. Two-and-a-half-ton trucks take the cans to advance Army dumps...
...struck, and three months to the day after Saipan, Admiral Nimitz' marines attacked, 500 miles due east of Mindanao. Their target: the Palau Archipelago (five principal islands, 100 smaller ones). Palau was the brightest star (and capital) of Japan's vast mandated empire. "The spigot of our oil barrel," the Japs called it, when their ships left port to tap the great oil reserves of the stolen Indies...
Santa Claus consisted of a group of eight major oil companies,* who offered to turn over to the Society, lock, stock & barrel, the rich Universal Oil Products Corp. Universal is a research firm which holds patents on oil processes that yield an annual income of $1,000,000. Universal's owners paid $22,000,000 for the company in 1931, have since used it to pool research and patents. Reason for giving it away (according to well-informed oil men) : the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Universal as a possible trust, and to avoid a protracted struggle...
Petroleum and Old Men. The stunned chemists were not able to say at once what they would do with their new wealth, which would make the A.C.S. the first scientific society ever to become a large property owner. Tentatively, the group planned to continue Universal's industrial oil research and spend its $1,000,000 income for university studies in pure science related to petroleum...