Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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If Labor wins again, it will probably not continue nationalization beyond the iron and steel industry (the bill is currently suffering delays in the House of Lords), unless economic conditions worsen considerably. The party is firmly pledged to continue all of the "welfare state" projects, and is expected to push...
In writing to the East African government of the clampdown on dollar oil, Britain's Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones had added: "The Americans have, as expected, not gone beyond expressing regret" at the restrictions against dollar oil. That set things popping. Texas' oil-conscious Tom Connally, whose...
Jungles & Flophouses. Down and Out is the largely autobiographical account of Orwell's own depression battle with starvation. He had gone home to India after Eton (where he "learned very little"), and had served five years with the Imperial Police in Burma. The climate, the itch to write and...
New Fields. Bermúdez says that he spends about 99% of his waking hours thinking about Pemex. Three days each week he visits oil regions in his DC-3, "El Petrolero"; the rest of the time he works hard in Pemex' pseudo-colonial, four-floor office building on...
Only one man could give the final pat to this neat little colonial comedy, and any schoolboy could guess who he was after three sentences-Rudyard Kipling. This one story, written when Kipling was 44, is the only pure drop of storytelling in the bucket; the literary spigot, which by...