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steadily until 1940, when it was the largest installation in the United States, with a 
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oil in the world, and biggest reserves of oil were discovered in the Lake of 
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Question: This Venezuelan port grew slowly until oil was discovered at a lake of the same name in 1917
Answer: Maracaibo