The site of Destiny USA was originally a landfill named Marley Scrap Yard, surrounded by several square blocks of oil tanks, collectively named " Oil City ".

The series resurrected other Terrytoons characters, but acknowledged the passage of time: perennial menace Oil Can Harry returns to chase Pearl Pureheart once more (" Still Oily After All These Years "), 1940s characters Gandy Goose and Sourpuss and 1960s Deputy Dawg are revived ( Gandy and Dawg frozen in time in blocks of ice ) in " The Ice Goose Cometh ", " Gaston Le Crayon " has a cameo (" Still Oily After All These Years "), and Bakshi's own 1960 creations — The Mighty Heroes — appear, aged, in the episode " Heroes and Zeroes ".

The company has acquired 7 Oil & Gas blocks in different parts of the world, including 5 in Georgia, 1 in Bolivia and 1 in India.

The deepwater exploration licence No. 2 / 93 covering four blocks in the Slyne Trough was granted on 1 January 1993 for a period of 11 years to Enterprise Oil and its partners Saga Petroleum Ireland Limited, Statoil Exploration ( Ireland ) Limited, and Marathon International Petroleum Hibernia Limited.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

Not a year goes by but what several local companies in the U.S. and Canada, even overseas, write to Fueloil & Oil Heat to inquire if it's feasible and where it is being done.

The most convincing recent measurement of an anaconda was made in eastern Colombia by Roberto Lamon, a petroleum geologist of the Richmond Oil Company, and reported in 1944 by Emmett R. Dunn.

A reporter who consulted a Middle East Information officer for routine vital statistics got nowhere until the State Department man produced from his bottom desk drawer a brochure published by the Arabian-American Oil Company.

Union Oil Co. of California Tuesday offered $120 million in debentures to the public through a group of underwriters headed by Dillon, Read & Co., to raise money to retire a similar amount held by Gulf Oil Corp..

Gulf's holdings could have been converted into 2,700,877 shares of Union Oil common upon surrender of debentures plus cash, according to Union.

It fell to Chancellor Kimpton, now a Standard Oil ( Indiana ) executive, to spend his nine-year reign tidying up Chicago after the 21-year typhoon of Idealist Robert Maynard Hutchins.

Angola's War Economy: The Role of Oil and Diamonds.

A Crude Awakening, The Role of Oil and Banking Industries in Angola's Civil War and the Plundering of State Assets.

Angola: The Anatomy of an Oil State.

Some Transparency, No Accountability: The Use of Oil Revenues in Angola and Its Impact on Human Rights.

The Portuguese government granted operating rights for Block Zero to the Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, a subsidiary of ChevronTexaco, in 1955.

Oil production surpassed the exportation of coffee as Angola's largest export in 1973.

* 1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $ 29. 4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers ; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

* 1980 – President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U. S. economy rebound.

Aerial photo of oilfield roads and drill sites in the Pembina Oil Field, 2008.

Oil and gas exports have been possible because of increasing pipeline technology.

When oil prices spiked during the 1967 Oil Embargo, 1973 oil crisis, and 1979 energy crisis, Alberta's economy boomed.

In 1864, Carnegie invested $ 40, 000 in Story Farm on Oil Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

* At the height of his career, Carnegie was the second-richest person in the world, behind only John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil.

The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

New Orleans had a notorious red-light district extending over twenty-eight city blocks, and the business-minded mayor of the city journeyed to Washington to present the case for `` the God-given right of men to be men ''.

State Department officials refusing to show their passes at the boundary, and driving two blocks into East Berlin under military escort, will not avail.

They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to buy fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there.

The outside 4-inch space is filled by mortaring blocks on edge.

Mortar is poured between this bracing and the 4-inch blocks on edge to complete the wall thickness for radiation shielding.

Concrete blocks are passed between the beams and put on the boards.

The roof blocks are in two layers and are not mortared together.

The last roof boards are covered with blocks from outside the shelter.

When the roof blocks are all in place, the final rows of wall blocks are mortared into position.

Solid concrete blocks, relatively heavy and dense, are used for this shelter.

These blocks are sold in various sizes so it seldom is necessary to cut a block to fit.

Solid blocks are recommended because hollow blocks would have to be filled with concrete to give effective protection.

If they are used, the walls and roof should be 10 inches thick to give the same protection as the 8-inch solid concrete blocks.

An outdoor, aboveground fallout shelter also may be built with concrete blocks.

Two walls of concrete blocks are constructed at least 20 inches apart.

Whole blocks are disappearing and more are scheduled to vanish to make room for wide boulevards that will show off its treasures to better advantage -- the great domes and graceful spires of its mosques, the panorama of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn.

Near the end of the Hippodrome I came upon the Built Column, a truncated obelisk of blocks, all that remains of a monument that once rivalled the Colossus of Rhodes.

The joints are also reinforced on each side with small blocks set in resin-saturated Fiberglas cloth and nailed.

Again, these blocks were set in resin-saturated glass cloth and nailed.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

It consists of two blocks with flat surfaces held apart by shims.