Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think that the technological revolution has been substituted for the class revolution--the old Marxist concept. I think that what petroleum did in America, and electricity--what coal did in England--can be done now by electronics and computers and other devices, provided we can use them properly and at the right time which is now and not tomorrow...
...passage describing how Jackie used petroleum jelly in order to slip her wedding ring on Jack's finger after he had been pronounced dead at Dallas' Parkland Hospital...
...United Brazilian Minerals, which is 49% owned by Cleveland's Hanna Mining, was granted the right to mine and export iron ore and eventually to manufacture steel, an ambitious $600 million enterprise. The two new projects were only the latest in a spate of similar announcements. Phil lips Petroleum plans to pump in some $60 million, starting with a new fertilizer plant for which ground has already been broken. Union Carbide will expand its operations to the tune of $62,300,000. International Harvester has not only reopened; it is also spending $30 million to expand its truck line...
...Middle East have been unusually har monious in demanding "akthar, akthar" (more, more) from the Western oil consortiums. The loudest voice has come from Syria, which has no wells but makes do with the next-best thing: a 305-mile stretch of the pipeline through which the Iraq Petroleum Co. pumps oil from its Iraq field to the Syrian port of Baniyas on the Mediterranean. Last week, after weeks of futile negotiations on new rates, Damascus seized the pipeline "to achieve the full rights of the people...
...Libya will pass Iraq in production, rank fourth in the Middle East (after Saudi Arabia, Kuwait ,and Iran). Algerian production is growing and tiny Tunisia became an exporter for the first time this year. Before long, Egypt will be in the market, thanks to a Phillips Petroleum strike near El Alamein announced last week...