Word: petrolea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the Petrolea pumping station at the Barco field the pipe line snaked up 5,400 feet over the Eastern Andes, then down through miles of rotting jungle to the sea, thrice crossed the Magdalena River or its branches. It cost Cap Rieber and Socony-Vacuum a cold $40,000,000 ($18,000,000 for the pipe line; $22,000,000 for development work). "Hell!" says Cap Rieber, "if they wanted to move the Chrysler Building to Colombia, we'd do it -if they...
...lumber, coal, mineral ores, petroleum. Chief weakness of Italy's war machine is her great lack of coal and petroleum in commercial quantities. It is known that the Soviet Naphtha Syndicate of Moscow, official distributor of Soviet oil, has set up a subsidiary company in Italy known as Petrolea. Observers guessed that Petrolea will be given the job of stocking the enormous oil reservoirs which Italy's army and navy are now building...
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