Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both cases are microorganisms that go for hydrocarbons like kittens lapping spilled cream. Until recently no one made much of the hungry bugs' peculiar tastes blast week Research Director Alfred Champagnat of Société Française des Pétroles, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co Ltd. announced that he has domesticated the oil eaters and that they are excellent food for both man and beast...
Breeder reactors, opening up a virtually limitless supply of power, will dispel a cloud that hangs over the future of mankind-the prospect that within a few centuries the earth's supply of coal and petroleum will be exhausted. Since modern civilization could not survive without economical sources of power, historians of the future may record that the train of atomic development beginning on Dec. 2. 1942 preserved the civilization that it sometimes seemed to threaten...
...Venezuela was there real trouble. Hours after the call to terror from Havana, four explosions shook the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, where foreign oil companies have 9,000 wells pumping 2,400,000 bbl. of oil daily. The blasts wrecked four offshore electric transformer stations belonging to Creole Petroleum Corp., knocking out 600 wells and cutting Creole production (1,300,000 bbl. daily) by almost half. On a well platform 300 ft. from one of the damaged transformer stations, Creole workers found two men still alive but horribly burned-victims of their own sabotage. A third man was found...
...well consider himself tired. At 18 he borrowed $100 to attend a business school in Chillicothe, Mo., came home after 90 days $480 richer, thanks to a weekly raffle of men's suits that he conducted on the side. He then borrowed $3,500 more to buy a petroleum distributorship in Mississippi, gradually added a tank-truck fleet and a string of service stations. Drafted into the Air Force during World War II, Milner found that the Army did not require all of his talent. While making $68 a month as a sergeant, he made as much...
...Jointly owned by British Petroleum (formerly Anglo Iranian Oil), Royal Dutch/Shell, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles. Jersey Standard, Socony Mobil, and the estate of the late Calouste ("Mr. Five Percent") Gulbenkian...