Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nitrogen-producing equipment only slightly damaged. ¶Similar capacity for producing petroleum products, rubber, bearings, electric power, electrical and electronic equipment, wood products, precision and optical instruments...
Butyl is made from petroleum. The Army is getting 12,000,000 Ibs. a month for tire tubes. Other butyl uses: waterproof clothes, tents, hoses, draperies...
...State Department's decision to allot 500,000 tons of petroleum to Argentina was no oil on troubled Pan-American waters...
Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew last week explained the oil deal: 1) the petroleum shipments were in exchange for vegetable oils, which Argentines are now using as fuel; 2) 80% of the petroleum would be transported in Argentine tankers...
...great land route won at such tremendous cost in life and energy; the line that was supposed to form an invulnerable channel from the resources of the South Seas to the arsenals of Manchuria carried during six months' existence not a single ton of rubber or petroleum, not a single important troop movement...