Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seymour Weiss is also under indictment for evading and conspiring to evade income taxes, for conspiring with Dick Leche to violate the Federal "hot oil" law restricting petroleum production. Alone of the Big Three, Bob Maestri is unindicted.*He still runs New Orleans and Louisiana (through Huey's little brother Earl, who became Governor when Dick Leche resigned). Accustomed to the rise-and the subsiding-of political scandal's flood, Louisianans concede Boss Maestri an excellent chance to get Earl Kemp Long re-elected next January, keep the shell-shocked but undestroyed Long machine intact...
Peru's President Oscar Benavides cleared the way for Peru's copper, cotton, petroleum...
...Angeles: Shippers hoped that their Chamber of Commerce would take over U. S. coastwise vessels to forestall a tie-up of cotton, citrus fruits, petroleum, exports...
...confiscated in 1937, and of foreign mining interests. Capital to build Government-dominated tin foundries (the Bolivian mines of Tycoon Simon I. Patiño produce about 15% of the world's supply) was being sought in Manhattan last week by Busch's Minister of Mines & Petroleum Dionisio Foianini, son of an Italian father and Bolivian mother, second husband of a girl from New Haven, Conn, whom a Bolivian artist took home with him from Yale. Señor Foianini offered no theory other than nervous suicide about the dead Condor last week. But he was deeply...
...Petroleum...