Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PETROLEUM AND PETROCHEMICALS. As well as owning a refinery in Panama, Ludwig is a partner in development of a refinery and petrochemicals complex in Dade County...
Scientists seeking ways to fight the disease are now experimenting with fungicides derived from petroleum. Other fungicides, containing copper-sulfate solution, have already been used successfully in Africa, but they are usually too costly for the small grower. There is an added expense: because the fungus clings to the undersides of the leaves, safe from aerial attacks, the spraying must be done by hand...
...interest in keeping that oil flowing is not only strategic. The Middle East reserves are controlled by seven companies, known to oilmen as "the Seven Sisters." Five of them are American-owned: Jersey Standard, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf and Standard of California. (The other two are British Petroleum and Shell.) U.S. companies produce 100% of Saudi Arabia's oil, 75% of Libya's, 50% of Kuwait's, 40% of Iran's and 25% of Iraq's. The companies' investments are calculated to be $2.2 billion in book value alone. A more realistic assessment of their...
...worked in Argentina while the government in power expropriated foreign petroleum properties and made other hostile noises about foreign investors. We halted this project in 1966 following a military coup which installed a government which has been among the most receptive in Latin American toward American capital...
...Sept. 11 % Gain Natomas Co. 14⅜ 60⅞ 323.5 Reading & Bates 9⅝ 28 190.9 Checker Motors Corp. 10¾ 29 169.8 Santa Fe International 13 27⅝ 112.5 Philips Industries, Inc. 8 14⅞ 85.9 Redman Industries Inc. 11¾ 21⅝ 84.0 Pacific Petroleums 15¼ 27⅜ 79.5 Amerada Hess Corp. 20½ 36⅛ 76.2 Great Western Financial 12¼ 21½ 75.5 Imperial Corp. of America 7⅛ 12½ 75.4 Belco Petroleum Corp. 10½ 18⅜ 75.0 Gibraltar Financial of Calif. 11¾ 20⅜ 73.4 Xtra...