Oil was discovered nearby in Oilton, Texas and for a short time the town seemed to have a future - but although (or because) it was on a railroad - it lost population to the nearby county seat of Laredo, Texas.
Oil wealth, sugar cane cultivation, and more recently tourism continue to stimulate its growing economy.
In 2000, he wanted to determine vulnerability of the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme for Iraq.
Capichin friars named the village "Población de San Lucas de El Molino" because of a Wheat Mill (grinding) which was later demolished.
The United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 1483 on May 22, 2003, ending economic sanctions against Iraq while clearing a path for the transfer of over $1 billion from the Oil-for-Food program as seed money for establishment of the development fund.
From 1997 to 1998 he worked as Chief Administrator for the UN Oil-for-Food Programme in Iraq.
After Denis Halliday resigned as UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq in October 1998, von Sponeck took over, heading all UN operations in Iraq and managing the Iraqi operations of the Oil-for-Food Programme.
Wheat, soybeans, milo, and various other crops are also produced in the Lorenzo area.
On January 16, 2007, former UN official Benon Sevan was indicted by a Manhattan federal prosecutor for taking about $160,000 in bribes.
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These hearings covered certain corporations and several well-known political figures, including Russia's Vladimir Zhironovsky and drew significant media attention for the combative appearance of British Member of Parliament George Galloway, an anti-Iraq-War member of the RESPECT The Unity Coalition (Respect), a then-new British political party, who vigorously denied the subcommittee's allegations against him and claimed they were politically motivated.
It was probably the oleaster (Elaeagnus angustifolia), which grows abundantly in almost all parts of the Land of Israel, especially about Hebron and Samaria.
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"It has a fine hard wood", says Tristram, "and yields an inferior oil, but it has no relationship to the olive, which, however, it resembles in general appearance".
Additionally the oil museums in Kern County, California and the libraries and museums in the area around Silver City, New Mexico, and especially the period photography, played a large part in shaping his screenplay and the film.
The novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair published in 1927 is loosely based on Doheney's life and the story of Pan American.
Wheat and vegetables are cultivated by villagers, who also harvest wild seabuckthorn berries.
John Myers has a farm on the N.E. quarter of Section 22 containing about 7.00(?) Acres(?) and has rais a good crop of Oats Wheat Barley Potatoes and Buckwheat this Season.
Paper Wheat, a documentary play and film about the formation of Canada's wheat pools
AWB has been the subject of controversy in the mid-2000s, amid revelations that the company paid kickbacks to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, in what was known as "oil-for-wheat".