Word: petrol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small. A member from the mining district wants to know why miners in a certain town are being charged for their transportation to and from the mine. The Minister of Labour must answer him and he does. Another member wants to know the exact amount of oil and petrol reserves on hand in England, and the Minister of Fuel and Power answers that it would not be in the best interests of the nation to reveal this information. Silver-haired Anthony Eden, handsomer than his pictures make him out to be, rises and wants to know what the Government...
...youth in Alabama, then moved to California. He earned his way through Occidental College and the University of California, got a Master's degree in business administration. A 1924 airplane crash left him bedridden for a year. Recovered, he plunged into oil operations. As head of tiny Petrol Corp. he first fought the major companies, but when Petrol Corp. had its back to the wall, he allowed a major (Signal Oil) to bail him out. At 38 he was a millionaire...
...Britain, food rationing has continued, clothing rations are reduced, and "the only relaxations from full wartime austerity have been the end of the blackout and the return of the (very small) basic petrol ration...
...June 1, the British Ministry of Fuel and Power had restored the "basic ration" of five imperial gallons of petrol (six U.S. gallons) a month for small cars, seven for big ones. After the outing, Britain's lanes were liberally strewn with carefully preserved, blast-dented vehicles whose engines had broken down or whose tires had given...
...practical politician like Harry Tru man, Californian Edwin Wendell Pauley had a claim to a good job. Big, hulking Ed Pauley, operating oilman (Petrol Corp.) and fast-moving dealer in California oil properties, was a faithful, hard-working political war horse - treasurer of the Dem ocratic National Committee, a crack money-raiser, a tried & trusted Truman friend to boot. But there were few cheers in Washington last week when Harry Tru man announced that Ed Pauley was to be the U.S. member of the Allied Reparations Commission, with the rank of Ambassador...