Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sign reads: "Welcome to Burma-Courtesy of the Hairy Ears." It stands beside a crude road that plunges through the jungles, curls around the southeastern slopes of the mountains on the India-Burma border. The Hairy Ears are the U.S. Army engineers who for ten months now have been working on a prodigious undertaking-the "Ledo Road," a new route into Burma. Last week the Army proudly unveiled...
...Harry Sinclair suspected that the old days were gone forever. After an appropriate wait, while the State Department harrumphed and other U.S. oil companies stood on their legal, unenforceable rights, he made his own direct deal with Mexican realists. For $8,500,000 on the barrelhead, plus enough crude to net Sinclair a tidy profit, Mexico could have the whole Sinclair properties with no legalistic strings attached. Last week's check from good Don Francisco was the final payment...
Army's Contract. To Washington and Whitehorse and Norman Wells shuttled U.S. and Canadian officials and oilmen. Finally a contract was signed by which the U.S. Army would help develop the field. It would also build a pipeline of some 500 miles for the crude to a U.S. refinery at Whitehorse, plus gasoline lines to Skagway (on tidewater), Fairbanks, and the airfield at Watson Lake. In all. some 1,600 miles of pipeline, over the toughest terrain imaginable, plus an oilfield as industrially remote as Africa...
...pictures (and those of imitators) were charmingly naive and generalized, and just as crude as the steel engravings produced by such famed commercial forbears as Boston's Paul Revere. They were designed to fit every advertiser's needs. There were pictures of bonnets for milliners, bottles for perfumers and brewers, elephants for circuses, fleeing figures for owners of runaway slaves, corsets for modistes, puffing trains for railroads...
...rather less than a lady, and both of them rather more primordially interested in each other than the Hays Office likes to feel that people should be. Director William Seiter seems to have fallen just short of a new sort of realistic, deeply indigenous comedy. His picture is often crude, sometimes raw, but definitely worth seeing...