Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is little to prevent Trujillo from calling his turn. Last fortnight's embargo on truck and petroleum sales by the Organization of American States is largely ineffectual; the ban does not affect Trujillo's principal income earners, sugar and coffee. Trujillo has also just about completed the destruction of his only serious opposition at home-the educated upper and middle classes, which nearly brought off a coup last January...
...export income. Last week the Communists dealt off another, even bigger offer. In La Paz, Nicolai Rodionov, Soviet bureaucrat, announced that Russia would bid not only the smelter but also a $150 million low-interest, long-term loan for Russian technical aid to Bolivia's government-owned petroleum and tin corporations. Russia might also buy, all of Bolivia's high-cost tin ore, currently in slack demand at world market prices...
...offered a new Cabinet balanced between four princes and six commoners. The key post of Finance went to Saud's brother Prince Talal, whose powerful voice in the family councils had cinched Feisal's rise and Saud's demotion two years before. The new Minister of Petroleum, Mines and Education is Abdullah Tariki, the aggressively nationalistic University of Texas-trained geologist who in Arab councils argues that all the Arab countries should be getting a larger share of oil-company profits...
...Founder of the league-and owner of the Dallas Texans -is soft-spoken Lamar Hunt, 28, onetime bench-riding end at Southern Methodist and son of Texas-sized Millionaire H. L. Hunt. Brash Bud Adams, 37, owner of the Houston Oilers, is the son of the chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co. Barron Hilton, 32, son of Hosteler Conrad Hilton, is president of the Los Angeles Chargers...
...telling the whole truth I might convict an innocent man . . ." The narrator testifies, dry mouth and all, for more than 300 pages about an oily Emir who wants more oil, and a berobed old Britisher with a patch over one eye and a theory that, by Allah, there is petroleum under a certain unpromising patch of ground. The old fellow's bastard son shows up, learns to be an oil geologist in a trice, and shortly is locked in mortal combat with his father. It is this son who defends the fort, and he would be there yet, pinging...