Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was enough to make an effective strike. Creole, the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary that produces almost half Venezuela's oil, reported output down 75% and closed its 300,000-barrel-a-day pipeline south of Lake Maracaibo for fear of sabotage. Shell Oil was reported to be closed down even tighter than Creole. The stoppage was just as tough on the government: its revenues, derived mainly from oil royalties, fell off sharply...
Anzac airmen knew about Mohammed's uncle, who had the voice of 100 trumpets, and Paul Bunyan, who could kill a pond-ful of bullfrogs with a single shout. Big, barrel-chested, ramrod-stiff Jimmy Duncan came close to outshouting them both. The legend was that once when Jimmy told a lagging ground crew to "pick up those feet," the pilot of a bomber approaching the airdrome hastily retracted his landing gear. On an occasion when Jimmy was drilling a squad of recruits in a Wellington park, another squad half a mile away had to quit because they couldn...
Wrote Jones to the subcommittee: "I think [RFC] should be given a decent burial, lock, stock & barrel. None of the emergency conditions which prompted [its] creation exists today. When the Government finances business, it is competing with private enterprise from which it gets much of its income. When it finances improvident business, it takes from the profits of competing business, gets no taxes from the improvident, and loses on its loan...
...most were dreadful. But Robert Howard's slim pear wood Semaphore was there to show how elegant three-dimensional abstractions can be. Peter Lipman-Wulf's Horse and Man looked as if it had been made for fun from the contents of a carpenter's scrap barrel. Despite its casual air it was as tense and tightly constructed as anything in the show...
Families & Fermentation. Present boss of the company is August Jr., who started as a worker in a malt house in 1921 and reached the top four years ago when his older brother, Adolphus, the company president, died of cancer. A barrel-chested World War II colonel, "Gussie" Busch, now 51, is a throwback to Grandfather Adolphus. He has a shrewd eye for horses, a nose that can sniff the quality of hops, and he likes nothing better than the periodic Schlachtfeste at which the family, clad in Bavarian costumes, consumes quantities of sausages, pork cuts and ribs washed down with...