Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experiments in Colorado date back to 1926. They were abandoned in 1929 as unnecessary when new petroleum reserves started coming in, were revived during the wartime oil shortage. At that time Congress appropriated $30 million for large-scale research in synthetic fuel. It seemed a good gamble; geologists estimate that...
Despite these problems, some big users of crude are about ready to go to work on shale oil on a commercial basis. Union Oil Co. of California has 14,000 acres of oil-shale lands, hopes to build a plant which will produce 200,000 barrels of oil a day...
¶ On all scheduled North Atlantic flights from January through March, there will be 15-day round-trip fares at only 10% more than the regular one-way fare. Thus, a New York-to-London winter round trip will cost but $385, v. a regular round-trip fare of $630...
¶ Starting Jan. 1, Pan American World Airways will make two round trips a week, and daily round trips' from June through September, from New York to Rome, to carry U.S. pilgrims celebrating the Roman Catholic Holy Year. Pan Am, which does not have a scheduled route to Rome...
Even though the grocery business stands near its alltime high, sales-sharp Nathan Cummings, chairman of the giant Consolidated Grocers Corp., thought there was something wrong. He felt that neither he nor the grocers were selling enough food. To find out how to boost sales, the boss of the largest...