Word: oil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public he was only a name until he wrote one of his first Supreme Court decisions-the Panhandle Oil Co. case. His decision: the Panhandle Oil Co. need not pay a Mississippi State gas tax on sales made to the U. S. Coast Guard, because the company's part in such sales made it a "Federal instrumentality" and thus it could not be taxed...
...Plan. A Supreme Allied Economic Council will parallel and backstop the efforts of the Supreme Allied War Council. It will be divided into six component executive committees, for joint action with respect to aviation, munitions & war materials, oil, food, shipping, economic warfare. Much collaboration is already afoot by Allied commissions in some of these fields. Importance of establishing a Supreme Economic Council is to insure that certain basic principles are observed all down the line. As announced last week, three of these principles...
...Empire oil production 385 272,044 271,659 (in thousands of metric tons...
...decks like tenpins. The first blast's force lifted the whole ship out of water forward. Officers on the bridge were slain at their posts. The second explosion burst Bolivar's fuel tanks and the sea around her became filled with swimmers gasping and spluttering in black oil. One rescued baby was officially listed as a pickaninny, then scrubbed, and listed as white. One man saved his small daughter by pushing her ahead of him through the sludge on a packing case. While being rescued by tugs and trawlers, Bolivar's survivors could see the Yugoslav ship...
...many serious problems to be clever about in the first part of her reign. There was friction with Venezuela over the Dutch-owned islands of Curasao; the problem of protecting trade interests in Turkey and China; concern over Mexico's program, even then taking shape, of annexing foreign oil properties...