Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Phillips Petroleum Co. is surveying the possibility of a plant near Calcutta...
...took him on as general counsel for his American Independent Oil Co. in 1950. The two work together like the barrels of a shotgun-as is only natural. It was F.D.R.'s curmudgeonly Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, Raymond's father, who picked Davies to be wartime Deputy Petroleum Coordinator when he was a vice president of Standard Oil of California. In part because Davies had so faithfully served the old oil-industry scourge, at war's end he found his former job at Standard Oil unavailable. "Honest Harold" bought ten shares in the company and protested...
...went as smooth as silk. I even posed on the kitchen floor with a lily in my hand and my face in the firm grip of a plaster mask. I didn't realize how firm a grip it was until I attempted to remove it. (We had used petroleum jelly without the benefit of Saran.) I was hung up by my hair and my eyelashes. My eyebrows pulled out without any fuss, but I couldn't bear to part with my eyelids. So, holding my "face" in one hand, I began to demolish the project with a hammer...
...insect family, says Dr. Hutchins, is the largest of the animal kingdom. It includes nearly a million species that range in habitat from Antarctic snows to petroleum pools, and vary in size from a fairy fly, which measures about one-hundredth of an inch, to an African goliath beetle, which weighs up to 3.4 oz. and walks around eating bananas, which it peels with its snout...
...that other major embargo, the ban on selling oil and gasoline to Rhodesia, it was faring no better. Smith's friends in South Africa and the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola have been openly smuggling in enough petroleum to keep his industries running, his trucks on the road and his taxis on the streets. So heavy has been the flow of oil, in fact, that the government may have to cut it off for a while. "There is more oil in the country than we can find space for," said one oil company official last week...