Word: oils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sahara oilmen dismissed as impractical even Soustelle's more modest plans to bring their wives and families to the desert. And many hardheaded French businessmen and bureaucrats, noting that it will probably take the oil companies 30 years to amortize the investments they have already made in the Sahara, pooh-pooh Soustelle's industrialized Sahara as visionary...
...first took up his double life during World War II, when he served a village near Dover as vicar and simultaneously worked as a coalfield pitman. Hampered by unenthusiastic superiors and sheer exhaustion. Strong had to quit for a while, but in 1955 he took a job as an oil-meter checker in a factory, was appointed curate in Harlington, and won the backing of his bishop...
Nosing down are U.S. shipments of aircraft (foreign lines are waiting for the jets), cotton (buyers are holding back for a price cut expected later this year), coal (Europe has a big surplus). Dropping also are exports of machinery and steel, cars and oil, for the same reasons that U.S. imports of them are steaming up: the foreign products are plentiful, low in price and of good quality. Comparing the first halves of 1958 and 1959, U.S. imports of electrical apparatus, electronics parts and transistor radios went up from $72 million to $96 million, imports of industrial machinery from...
...Standard Oil Co. (Indiana...
...Standard Oil Co. (Ohio...