Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conway is populated with every type of barrel-slat boarder. Social skiers, snow bunnies, vacationers seeking their first contact with winter's great outdoors, pros, and even a few mouth-skiers who don't bother to bring skis, abound...
Sunrise. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey followed Sun Oil Co.'s lead (TIME, Dec. 8) and boosted its buying price of crude by 50? a barrel. By week's end, the new price pattern had been established east of the Rockies and showed signs of spreading to the West Coast, where Union Oil Co. of California had already led off with a 40? increase...
...blowing off about how content and happy everyone was and how they all had sufficient to eat, whilst he warmed the cushion of a bar stool in an officers' club in Germany. You can't go around telling everybody that John Taber represents some people sitting around a cracker barrel in Oneida, N. Y., and perhaps not even them, and that he doesn't speak for everyone in America. There were too many irresponsible fools in Europe just serving to gum up the works. They appeared in print all over the place and they added nothing but confusion...
Said a Standard Oil man: "A horrible surprise." The rest of the industry felt the same way. Last week, only six weeks after a 20?-a-barrel increase in the price of crude oil had upped retail gasoline and oil prices, Sun Oil Co. raised its buying price for crude again. This time the price went up 50? a barrel, the largest single rise oilmen could remember in years. It brought the price of crude bought by Sun Oil to $2.65, highest since...
...first political adventure was at a rally presided over by his father. Chep, then eight years old, was "poppa's" great admirer. He sat in the front row screaming, "Hurrah for poppa," so steadily that the rally had to cease until someone led Chep away to a barrel of lemonade. Chep has kept that quality of persistence...