Word: channelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Channel Flights. Loudon's visas add up to a record of accomplishment. In Venezuela, where he was once the Group's manager, he is credited with persuading the company to become one of the first (along with Créole Petróleum) to adopt the new fifty-fifty profit plan later adopted by the entire oil industry. In Iran, he helped head the international consortium in negotiations in 1954 after Premier Mossadegh nationalized the oil industry. Generally, Loudon prefers to leave most of the on-the-spot negotiating to local managers. Says he: "By comparison, they...
Then down from the satellite over a TV channel came a picture of northeastern North America, spotted with white swirls of cloud. Fort Monmouth experts made hasty versions of the picture (which hurt its quality) and sent them to Washington by messenger. There Dr. Keith Glennan, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, took it to the White House and showed it to President Eisenhower...
President Eisenhower made the final decision. It was, as Columnist James Reston wrote, "the most serious decision he has had to make since he ordered the Allied troops to cross the English Channel for the invasion of Europe...
...rebuilding program at the end of the war, branched into other areas of transport, laid the keels for 14 new oil tankers costing some $112 million, bought an aviation subsidiary, British Aviation Services, that last year ferried more than 67,000 cars and 193,000 passengers across-the English Channel...
...Northeast, despite water cloudy and cold enough to dismay a mackerel. For warmth, New Englanders may pull on foam-rubber "wet" suits,* will even chip a hole through ice to get at water. In the landlocked Midwest, divers gang together for long trips to Death's Door-a channel off a Wisconsin peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan, where, tucked among hidden reefs, lie more than 200 ships dating back to the 17th century. In parched New Mexico, a club called the Dusty Divers makes weekend round trips as far as 600 miles to find water, has even sought...