Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million of petroleum in 1948; a total of $2.2 billion in the next four years...
...billion of electrical plants, freight cars, and equipment for petroleum refining, steel plants, mining and agriculture in 1948, a total of $3.3 billion in the next four years...
Although both the United States and Russia are naturally wealthy nations, the allocation of Iranian petroleum becomes a prime consideration when one country wants to conserve its oil and another attempts the upkeep of a large military machine. Any Russian entrenchment in northern Iran comes as an economic and strategic threat to the Anglo-American interests in nearby Arabia. Besides giving the Soviet Union sufficient oil to maintain the ambitions of the Red Army, the plan for twenty-five years of Russian exploitation would weaken Allied control of the Iranian government and weaken the entire Anglo-American position...
...Elizabeth, and that Napoleon had been crowned Emperor by the French people (correct, the judges decided, because Napoleon, who crowned himself, was one of the French people).* Miss Chattanooga was asked: "What is the capital of Massachusetts?" She shifted uneasily, hesitated, finally burbled something which sounded very much like "Petroleum...
...move that would help the mining industry. His best piece of news had been written into the address at the last minute: after a nine-year controversy, Mexico had finally settled the oil expropriation row with Britain. For Royal Dutch Shell's subsidiary, the El Águila Petroleum Co., Mexico would pay $81,250,000 over the next 15 years, plus 3% interest...