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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OIL MERGER is being talked over by Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. and Sunray Oil Corp. Both firms would benefit by combining. Sunray has more reserves (more than 359 million bbls. of oil, 1.5 trillion cu. ft. of gas) than it can process, and Mid-Continent must buy most of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 24, 1955 | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

"Yellow fever," says Dr. Fred L. Soper, director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, "is not a dead duck. It has not been conquered, and it has not been eliminated as a permanent threat to the U.S." U.S. public-health officers, who thought they had closed the book on yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yellow Fever | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

FROM the deep-frozen midriff of Canada to the near-tropical bottoms of the Rio Grande, an unusual army of 8,000 or more hunters scoured the continent last week. Theirs was a gentle but rugged sport: they were afield from dawn till dark, slogging "Over hill, over dale,/ Thorough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: BIG HUNT WITHOUT KILLS | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

ONE brings back from Europe, the native continent of socialism, two contrasted impressions. Parties with the socialist or labor label are in political control of Norway, Sweden and Denmark and are strong partners in coalition governments in Belgium and The Netherlands. The Labor Party is Her Majesty's Opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

A chance-taking-ex-driller, McMahon climbed into his private plane (in which he flies 200,000 miles yearly), set out on a tour of U.S. gas capitals to persuade Fish and his associates to let Canada into the deal. Since pipeliners and oilmen continually drift around the North American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: The Big Poker Game | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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