Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greasy waters of Lake Maracaibo and the "Christmas trees" of valves spotted across the surrounding scrubby, flat land, a great flood of oil pours into the silvered storage tanks of foreign oil companies, including the world's largest petroleum producer, Standard-controlled Creole Petroleum Corp. Hard-hatted workmen spin the valves that channel the flood to docks where tankers simmer in the sun and to refineries where wastes flare in smoky orange flames...