Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British-owned Iraq Petroleum Co.'s ledger label for a pumping station in the Jordanian desert on its pipeline from Iraq to the Mediterranean. At this remote and inhospitable spot, in an air-conditioned concrete resthouse surrounded by nothing but miles of rock and sand, Jordan's young (20) King Hussein and his cousin, Iraq's young (20) King Feisal II, met last week to discuss the future of Jordan...
...this summer; she thought he was "about 42" (he is 46), pooh-poohed his Riviera trysts with Grace Kelly as "just a publicity stunt." One of Grace's bridesmaids, TV and Movie Actress Rita Gam, 27, cooed throatily at her new fiancé. Yaleman Thomas Guinzburg, 29, a co-founder of the new-directional, English-language quarterly Paris Review. Onetime Cineminor Joyce (Boy Trouble) Mathews, 36, a headliner in 1951 when she slashed her wrists and scared everybody by threatening a nosedive from the Manhattan apartment of Showman Billy Rose, clucked joyously of spring wedding bells...
Among the biggest spenders is the oil industry. With 1955 earnings of $262 million (up $36 million over 1954), Texas Co. Chairman J. S. Leach announced that his company would spend $325 million this year for new petrochemical plants, refineries and research centers. Close behind, Gulf Oil, Standard of Ohio...
...Bank, set up to finance purchases of U.S. goods when other funds are unavailable. Last week three Japanese firms that wanted such loans were winding up arrangements to get them. To ease Japan's chronic power shortage. Ex-Im was closing an $11million loan to Kansai Electric Power Co. to help buy U.S. generators from Westinghouse. Two other Japanese companies. Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Chubu Electric Power Co., were making deals to get similar loans for generators from General Electric...
...drive students to the dances and thereby make them more profitable rather than encouraging virtue. This deduction was supported by the subsequent appearance on Official Bulletin Boards of little white notices proclaiming the eight o'clock curfew for every Saturday night on which the House Committee sponsored a co-educational function...