Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick...
Texaco gets a company rich in reserves to protect itself against trouble in the Middle East. Though it has large holdings in Louisiana and Canada, 40% of Texaco's oil comes from a 30% interest in Saudi Arabia's Arabian American Oil Co., a 7% interest in the Iranian consortium, and a 50% interest in Caltex operations in Sumatra and elsewhere. To back them up, Texaco bought Trinidad Oil Co. Ltd. in 1956, last year added Seaboard Oil Co. Now with Superior, it gets big production in Venezuela's rich Maracaibo field, crude-oil reserves of well...
...venture, which gave Novelist Kenneth Roberts the title for his book about Rogers, was to find a northwest passage to the Pacific. But debt, circumstance and such enemies as Gage kept him from searching for the ' overland route that the Lewis & Clark expedition found in 1805. During the American Revolution, he offered his services to General Washington, fought briefly for the British after he was turned down. After the war, in one of U.S. history's more jarring ironies, his name was listed among those forbidden to set foot in New Hampshire...
Pork Chop Hill. Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), working from S.L.A. Marshall's battle report, has produced a nerve-shattering study of how the American infantryman met his trial by fire in Korea...
...special one-man show contained a dozen paintings by the American artist Edward Hopper. This should have pleased those with conservative tastes. Hopper chose ordinary, commonplace subjects and painted them almost realistically. But the almost is crucial; for herein lies his personal contribution. Somehow he was able to capture masterfully the moods of lone-liness. The best-known item in this dozen was "The Bootleggers." In it, Hopper painted his clapboard house not white, not gray, but light blue; and this bluishness works an ineffable effect on the beholder...