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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sides also have case histories to cite. In Saudi Arabia, U.S. companies got hold of major interests between 1933 and 1939, despite much higher bids on the part of other world powers. They were successful precisely because their interests were obviously nonpolitical. But the Ickes side argues that most nations of importance have long had a Government-private-enterprise combine in the world oil fields (Great Britain, The Netherlands...
...student group stated that cooperation or exchange of ideas is lacking between the dining hall administrations. "For instance," they cite, "Dunster House did not have melons for a long while because Mr. Lane, the Dunster dining hall director, did not know where to get them." The statement continues: "Later he learned from another steward where the melons could be obtained and has since been able to serve them...
Nothing to cite in an essay on modern drama, but a very pleasant evening...
Something Rare. Even without talent, Miss Bergman would bring something rare to U.S. films. To cite one single asset which is hers almost exclusively, her photographed flesh looks neither like a Crane fixtures ad nor sponge rubber nor the combined efforts of a fashionable portraitist and a rural mortician; it looks like flesh. Many people, since life must go on, find this attractive, even when it surprises them to see it on the screen. The same thing goes for her poise, sincerity, reticence, sensitiveness and charm...
...control-tower operators are a kind of remote-control traffic cop. No plane may move about the field without their clearance. By radio and signal lamp they issue priorities in landings and takeoffs, clear and assign runways, give directions for taxiing, direct planes to hangars, cite wind direction and velocity. At a busy field, tower operators have no time for knitting...