Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commission can act only in an advisory capacity in settling international disputes. As a guidepost, it will point the direction for oil industries to follow until a proposed world conference replaces this interim agreement by a treaty among other interested nations...
They got the final proof last week when B-29 Superfortresses of the Twentieth U.S. Air Force bombed the great Palembang oil refineries in remote southeastern Sumatra in the longest-range air assault of the war. If the B-29s could reach Palembang they could reach anywhere in Japan's homeland islands or in Greater East Asia...
...Warner has not announced the cost of such a central heater but estimates that a one-room unit will cost $20 to $30. It also estimates that fuel costs will be no higher than those of the oldfashioned furnace. The company also plans to adapt the burner for fuel oil and natural...
Natives helped him. One supplied him with rice and other food in his hideaways. He had a small lens which he used as a sunglass to light fires. He learned to squeeze the oil of coconuts and use it for cooking fuel. He shaved once a week, hus banding a scanty supply of razor blades. After a while "they almost pulled my face...
...remember the morning of May 19, 1944, when I took my battle station for the second time on the bridge and was immediately conscious of tense excitement there. Our Air Group had been launched shortly before dawn to fly over 14 Jap airfields, hit the great oil refinery and naval manufacturing works of Java, and, incidentally, to shoot down any planes that might be in the air and to sink any ships that might be in the harbor (ten were destroyed that...