Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's Jupiter nose cone that was recovered undamaged two weeks ago (TIME, May 26) did not slam down through the atmosphere in a crude and simple manner. Last week Cook Electric Co. of Chicago described the Rube Goldberg-type invention that delivered it to the search parties...
...another, left over from a time of shortage. In Alexandria, Va., a federal grand jury indicted 29 of the industry's companies-among them: Standard Oil (N.J.), Socony-Mobil, Shell Oil, Gulf, Tidewater, Phillips Petroleum-for allegedly using the Suez crisis 19 months ago to fix prices of crude oil and gasoline, accused them of violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring to restrain trade. It was the first large-scale criminal price-fixing case against the industry in more than 20 years, and one that oilmen promised to fight to the bitter...
...wooden walls of Puritanism can be wedged apart far enough to let such an amoral gem of a film play at the Kenmore. Not that it's pornographic. Not a bit. It proves the point that sex is an excellent subject for art and comedy without having to be crude or blatantly erotic. Although it is, really, all about sex, it has none of the relatively clumsy Hollywood eroticism of the writhing Presley genre, or even of recent French letdowns, such as And God Created Woman...
...Geneva, Ferhat Abbas, elder statesman of F.L.N., Algeria's Moslem independence movement, promptly denounced Soustelle's program as "a crude maneuver against Algerian nationalism." But from Algiers, TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported...
...security," Carson said, "is based on many considerations -our military posture, our overall economic and political strength, and our relationships with our friends and neighbors with whom we share a common danger. As administrator of the program it is my job to limit crude-oil imports in the interests of national security. My efforts are not, should not, and cannot be devoted to protection of the markets and profits of any individual. Nor can this be the function of the Federal Government in this highly complex field of crude-oil imports...