Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those ships are waiting for coal as fuel for Italy, OK. If it's for fuel for the ships themselves, they'll rust at the docks. Liberty ships . . . are oil-burners...
...spout of a shipside elevator into a 10,000-ton Liberty ship tied up at a Galveston dock. In the dust-thick hold, longshoremen flattened the light brown piles. Loaded with 328,000 bushels of No. 1 hard winter wheat, the ship moved over to a nearby dock. Oil barges filled her bunkers with fuel oil. That evening she sidled into the Gulf, headed for Bordeaux...
...nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets. But Kansas City also grew famed among U.S. cities for its sin. The cow town became a little Paris, a wide-open playground for cattlemen, drummers, oil wildcatters, and-somewhat later-glad-handing U.S. conventiongoers...
Esso Cuts. Esso Standard Oil Co., last of the industry to hike prices last fall, was also the first to slash them again. It cut the prices of more than 350 products (bottled gas, roofing asphalts, industrial lubricants, etc.) from 5% to 25%. By week's end Shell Oil Co., Inc. had followed Esso Standard's lead. Unchanged: the price of gasoline...
Koppers Cops. Pittsburgh's Koppers Co., Inc. got a Government contract to build a $4,413,250 plant to make oil from coal near Louisiana, Mo. It was the fourth Government-sponsored synthetic oil plant authorized since 1944 (the others : an earlier oil-from-coal plant at Louisiana, Mo.; an oil-from-shale plant at Rifle, Colo., and a fuel-from-farm-products plant at Peoria...