Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Demanded, in the face of two previous turndowns, that Syria cooperate to allow repair of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline cut by saboteurs during the Egyptian hostilities. Declared Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr.: "Unless work begins immediately . . . the oil situation will be aggravated, which means in human terms cold and hunger not only in Europe but in Asia and South America...
...Senate investigating committee made appropriate noises about a sweeping investigation, then settled for the finding that the money had been offered to Francis Case by attorneys John Neff and Elmer Patman, on behalf of California's Superior Oil Co. Even so, the Justice Department had enough evidence to take Neff, Patman and Superior Oil to court. Last week U.S. District Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy read off the sentence: Lawyers Patman and Neff were fined $2,500 each, let off with one-year suspended sentences for failing to register as lobbyists; Superior Oil was fined $10,-ooo for aiding...
...unexpired Collier's subscriptions, said that former Collier's readers will have the choice of taking Look or "any one of several other magazines" or, if they insisted, cash refunds. Hearst's Good Housekeeping and McCall's were dickering for Companion subscriptions; Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal) was expected to enter the negotiations this week. Crowell-Collier also planned to sell its Springfield, Ohio printing plant (estimated worth...
...taxes, woman suffrage and a host of other causes. It published Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, hired Charles Dana Gibson to draw Gibson girls (at $1,000 a drawing) and Frederic Remington to paint cowboy scenes. In 1919 the magazine was sold to Crowell Publishing Co. (whose predecessor firm had bought Companion in 1885), turned from art and exposes to cartoons and light fiction. Circulation tumbled, recovered under able Editor William Ludlow Chenery (1925-43), started down again after World...
Television cameras will be used in Sanders Theatre for the first time on January 8th, when British Labor Party leader Hugh Gaitskell delivers the first of this year's Godkin Lectures. The three-day series, "The Challenge of Co-Existence," will be televised by WGBH-TV on each of the three days...