Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marlin sails for home at 5 next morning, an hour when sleepy customs officials find it easy to look the other way. Without benefit of export licenses, food has found its way into the wicker baskets of the returning women, and their demijohns hold cooking oil instead of wine. Back in Martinique, easygoing inspectors hurriedly chalk their O.K.s on the baskets. In a few minutes the traffickers have sold their smuggled goods...
When the Federal Government won title to the rich submerged oil lands off the California Coast, Texans feared their offshore oil properties would be the next target. They were right. Last week Attorney General Tom Clark, a Texan himself, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to give the Federal Government title to the Gulf of Mexico's offshore lands now being "illegally leased" by Louisiana and Texas to private oil companies. Estimated amount of oil in the 780-mile coastal strip: 10 billion barrels...
...Jester was so boiling mad he told newsmen, "You can't print what I think." The underwater lands are one of the juiciest holdings of the Texas General Land Office, which uses the proceeds to help finance the state's schools; 1947's royalties from submerged oil drilling were $14,800,000. Just before Tom Clark filed suit, the board had collected $2,055,709 from private drillers for leases on 79,000 underwater acres...
...longer as simple as that. More mechanization would probably lower mining costs. Unless some of this saving was passed on to the consumer, coal consumption would fall still farther. With oil and coal both plentiful now, high-priced coal is barely able to compete with oil, and oil prices are falling. But there was no sign that Lewis was thinking of lower coal prices...
Subtraction. The Railroad Commission of Texas, which governs state oil production, ordered oil men to cut output 10% in January. The reason: estimated demand in the first quarter next year will be 190,000 bbls. a day below present levels...