Word: olean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test his method, Keith raised $1,250,000 from oilmen, built a pilot plant at Olean, N.Y. It produced only ten gallons a day. But this was enough to sell to RFC and the oil companies. Carthage will get Keith's patents royalty-free, but will pay his research firm $100,000 a year for engineering advice on running the plant...
...Nothing. In Olean, N.Y., Patrolman George Forrest asked a prowler what he was doing. Said the prowler innocently: "Nothing. Just trying to steal some wood and iron...
John Mishanec, 24, of Olean, N. Y., studied forestry at Syracuse University, graduated this year. Blond, moony Jack Croft, 21, of Trenton, N. J., majored in economics at Lehigh University, also took his degree this year. Albert Scaturo, 22, of Brooklyn, N. Y., started out to be a teacher, got a Columbia University degree this year. Last week Messrs. Mishanec, Croft, Scaturo and 14 other young men of similar ages, backgrounds, prospective vo cations, acquired the rating and emoluments ($114 per month, with allowances) of second-class seamen, U. S. Navy. They slept in double-decker beds, jammed to gether...