Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companies reporting at week's end, 237 showed bigger earnings, only 67 showed decreases. Oil-profiting from an unprecedented demand sufficient to outrun supply for two years-set the pace. Typical six months' earnings: Sun Oil Co., $11,360,170-up from $4,360,212; Phillips Petroleum Co., $15,459,699 v. $8,002,179; and Shell Union Oil Corp...
Haynes, who returned from Europe in 1936 to serve as general consultant for the company's foreign operations, will give courses in his specialty of petroleum geology...
...occasionally do the analyzing themselves. Many dissolved minerals are poison to some plants and healthy food to others. A certain wild pansy (Viola calaminaria, et zinci) thrives on the waste dumps of zinc mines where little else can survive. The presence of other plants points to copper, lead or petroleum...
...shortage began to pinch the Midwest last week. The major companies announced that they would have to ration dealers. Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) was first; in twelve central states it reduced gasoline deliveries 15%. Shell Oil, Phillips Petroleum and Socony-Vacuum quickly followed...
...realist to the core, Gulbenkian did not expect to keep Standard from going into Saudi Arabia by holding it to the "Red Line" agreement. But if the agreement is to be abrogated, so that Standard and Socony would not have to share their Arabian oil with Iraq Petroleum partners, Gulbenkian wanted to be paid off. So far, his price has looked too high to Standard...