Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land" between-the Neutral Zone jointly run by the Sheiks of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Davies leased the Sheik of Kuwait's half interest for $7.2 million, a price that made oilmen's eyes pop, plus a royalty of 34? a barrel, the highest ever offered up to then. Many had chuckled ever since at Davies' expensive "bargain...
...sooner had the Government issued the new decontrols on materials and prices (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) than the law of supply & demand reasserted itself. In areas where shortages still existed, prices moved up. On the West Coast, crude oil went up 10? a barrel, and Socony-Vacuum predicted a nationwide boost of 1? a gallon in the price of gasoline. Scrap copper, supplies of which had dwindled to almost nothing in expectation of a free market, scooted up 4? a lb. to 25?. Since that was more than the ceiling price on refined copper (24½? a lb.), metalmen were sure...
Morocco. "I spent five years in Morocco from 1941-1945 . . . President Roosevelt came to the Casablanca conference in January 1943, and with the recklessness of a schoolboy told the Sultan he should assert his independence of the French . . . This was like throwing a Roman candle into a barrel of gasoline." Childs's recommendation: the U.S. should abandon its "Alice in Wonderland policy," which is undermining the French administration. Instead, the U.S. should promote "greater liberty for the Moroccans, within the framework of the French Union, without inciting the Moroccans to open rebellion, which has only been to the advantage...
...prove that being a good chemist was not necessarily a handicap for a Harvard president. James Bryant Conant was soon just as much at home presiding over the Harvard Corporation as he had ever been puttering about his laboratory. A mild-mannered Yankee, with a cracker-barrel wit, he may have been quite a wrench from such grands seigneurs as Charles Eliot and A. Lawrence Lowell. But by this week, as he boarded his plane for Germany to begin his job as U.S. High Commissioner (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), professors and teachers across the country knew that James Conant had left...
...Henry lit his candle at both ends and rushed off to singe the fashionable moths in London and Salisbury. He was a big, ruddy-faced fellow, standing over six feet, with a chest like a barrel and a profile like something in a Punch & Judy show. His eyes, however, were "dark, and as full of sweetness as of fire," and his wit and intellect were already honed to a cutting edge. In London's beau monde of 1727, the petticoats rustled and the epigrams bristled where young Henry passed; he appeared to like the sound of petticoats best...