Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hyslop does not judge insects by their works; he loves them for themselves. With downright affection, he recalls attractive insects he has known. There is the strong-jawed "short-circuit beetle," for instance, that gnaws into lead cables. There are insects that live in crude petroleum. There is a clever bug (Dermatobia hominis, an invader from South America) that catches flies, lays its eggs on the flies' legs, then releases them unhurt to carry the larvae to man (where they burrow under the human skin). As Hyslop talks, bugs by the thousand that he has known and loved creep...
With that milestone passed, ECA sized up its accomplishments. Even while Europe argued over how to divide allotments, ECA had approved shipments to Europe totaling $1.49 billion. The major allotments had been for wheat ($230 million), coal ($128 million), petroleum ($127 million), cotton ($111 million), nonferrous metals ($89 million), meat ($64 million), industrial equipment ($48 million), tobacco ($26 million...
Crude oil and other petroleum products make up 75% of the river's cargo. Most of it is upriver, and the oil barges return empty; rivermen are now talking of building oil barges with return-trip deck space for autos. The rest of the traffic is in other bulk products which do not have to be moved rapidly. Downriver, Pittsburgh and Chicago ship steel, the Twin Cities grain. Upriver come cotton, sulphur and scrap from the South, coffee and sisal from Latin America...
...published its biggest shopping list so far for Latin America. Heading the list was Chile, due to get $12,619,000 for copper and nitrogen fertilizer for Italy, France, Britain and The Netherlands. Mexico would receive $4,000,000 for corned beef for Germany, Venezuela $12 million for petroleum products for Europe. All told, the list totted up to $32,355,398. Argentina was not even...
After World War I, Kohler taught at Northwestern University, left a lucrative private accounting practice to set up the books for the Tennessee Valley Authority. During World War II, he moved on to the War Production Board, moved again to the Petroleum Administration. He earned a reputation as a man who could talk down tough-talking Harold Ickes. Said one admirer: "He is hard to get along with. He is unreasonably honest...