Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the question of Alaska Highway fuel came up, the Dean, admittedly no oil expert, talked around a little bit, and held one conference - at which no notes were taken. He did not bother to consult the Petroleum Administrator about the alternatives, or WPB about the availability of critical materials, transportation and manpower, or the Navy about the possibility of sending oil up from Seattle by tanker through the Inside Passage. "I am not familiar with Washington situations and setups," explained the Dean. Then Dean Graham sat down and wrote a one-page memorandum recommending Canol. General Somervell okayed...
Last week Secretary Ickes, Petroleum Administrator, said unfinished Canol "is worth nothing and will have no value after the war," declared it "ought to be junked now." A WPB expert asserted that the 550-mile pipeline being laid between the oilfield and the refinery at Whitehorse in the Yukon will never function effectively because the mountainous wilderness it traverses is too cold...
Pointed Pressure. Aside from military events, hard economic facts have made their imprint on Spanish policy. The civil war hurt Spain badly, cost her 1,200,000 lives, left her agriculture and industry crippled. Spain had desperate need of grain, petroleum and cotton. Germany could give her none of these, nor anything else of immediate value. Britain and the U.S. could arrange the matter. For a time the products were granted to Spain in a process which seemed to be appeasement at its unprofitable worst. But somewhere along the line British and U.S. negotiators seem to have learned the technique...
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Fortas tried once before to join the Army, to chuck his many jobs as Under Secretary (guiding Ickes' power policy, handling U.S. insular possessions, helping supervise the coal industry, tussling with petroleum reserves). President Roosevelt had refused to accept his resignation, wrote: "You can best serve your country by continuing to do your job." Last week, unwilling to wait until his draft deferment expires on Nov. 15, Fortas resigned again, saying "I feel most deeply . . . that I should not be denied the privilege of joining the fighting forces." This time, Secretary Ickes accepted the resignation, but commented, "You have...