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Word: petrolera (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great hardship. By last week, although none would admit as much-or much of anything-these companies looked like the major entrants in the forthcoming race for Cuba's oil: Atlantic Refining's subsidiary, with slightly under 740,000 acres in all provinces except Oriente; Cia Petrolera La Estrella de Cuba, subsidiary of Royal Dutch Co., with 44,460 acres in Havana and Matanzas provinces; Union Oil of Cuba, and Sinclair Cuba Oil Co. with increasing acreage spotted throughout the island. If any of these companies strike deep production- long suspected in Cuba's lower Cretaceous (Chalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: Cuban Dream | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...good reason to cheer. A 3,250-page, nine-volume decision in their favor was handed down by a special commission named by the Board of Arbitration to investigate Mexico's oil industry. It aimed to settle the long-simmering dispute between the Sindicator de la Industria Petrolera, employers' syndicate, and the 18,000 oil workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: $1.38 Minimum | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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