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Last week the government said that "several of the most prominent U.S. oil companies are negotiating with the French for Sahara concessions." Texas Independent N. Bunker Hunt, son of H. L. Hunt, and Houston's Texas Gulf Producing Co. are dickering for a piece of the desert. Cities Service Co. and Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) say they are "interested" in making a Sahara oil deal. The five-year leases that French oil companies took in 1952 will expire this September, and some 27 million acres of potential oil lands that these companies did not exploit will...
From Haymarket Square you can go on down Hanover Street through Little Italy, by the Union Oyster House to the docks in one direction, and the coal yards by North Station in the other. After that, you cross the river, past the Navy Yard and Bunker Hill, and aren't in Boston any more
Staff work for possible use of armed force to retake Suez, according to the Brombergers, was begun in a secret bombproof bunker beneath the Thames in early September. The operation, known as "Project Terrapin," was in military readiness by Sept. 20. At this time there had been no mention of the inclusion of Israel. But on Oct. 14 the Israelis advised Defense Minister Bourges-Maunoury of their intention to invade Sinai, asking at the same time for extra military supplies. Bourges-Maunoury rushed over to the Hotel Matignon, say the Brombergers, bringing to Premier Guy Mollet "on a silver platter...
...very good. It has no flywheel, crankshaft or connecting rods. It has many valves to shunt air through the various chambers, but they are all self-operating, and none are exposed to high temperature. The engine can be made to run on almost any combustible liquid, even thick black bunker oil. Since the gases that spin the turbine have been mixed with scavenging air, they are not very hot (800-900° F.), so the turbine need not be made of expensive, heat-resistant metals...
...continued that '"suicide is seldom a simple matter and I consequently deplore as ill-considered the remarks" of Colonel Bunker...