Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruins of a bombed-out North Vietnamese army camp at Badon, 75 miles north of the 17th parallel. For six successive days Air Force F-4C Phantoms dumped new bombs into the craters-which exploded into towering columns of greasy black smoke. Looking for hiding places for his remaining petroleum supplies, Uncle Ho had turned the camp into an oil dump...
...last count, Americans had more than $25 billion invested in Canada, a third of all U.S. private investment abroad. U.S. firms not only operate some 1,500 major subsidiaries in Canada, but control 46% of the country's manufacturing, 52% of its mining and smelting, 62% of its petroleum and gas industries...
...announce a series of "directives" spelling out a program of austerity and reform. Reports say they will include a sharp cutback on state employment, special export credits to stimulate foreign trade, more public housing, complete overhaul of Illia's disastrous oil policy that forced Argentina to import petroleum for the first time in years, and reorganization of the country's food-distribution system to eliminate middlemen and help blunt the cost-of-living spiral...
Made of polypropylene fiber, a common petroleum byproduct, Ozite Town 'N' Terrace carpet does not absorb moisture, resists acids, grease, mildew, children and dogs-and can be cleaned by a simple hosing down. Originally intended mainly for patios, Ozite is spreading to schools, supermarkets, kitchens, and is carpeting yachts gunwale to gunwale. Dyed cardinal red, it was used last year to cover the altar set up in Yankee Stadium for Pope Paul's visit. Hoping that consumers will think up more tasks for the product, admen have settled on a simple slogan: "Use your imagination...
Academic. He does not question President Johnson's "painful, consistent" desire to avoid military defeat while "resisting proposals to enlarge the conflict." And though he wrote his book before the U.S. struck the petroleum targets at Haiphong and Hanoi, he foresaw that the President would find it necessary to move "imperceptibly" in the direction of more blows against North Viet...