Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than in the case of oil. Argentina has reserves estimated at 882 million bbl., yet last year it paid out $220 million, a sum greater than its foreign-trade loss, to import oil from Venezuela and elsewhere. The Suez crisis cost the country a cruel $100 million in higher crude prices and freights. Foreign oil companies would get the oil out of the ground or spend millions in Argentina trying. Instead, oil-is-ours nationalism assigns petroleum development to the capital-short, bureaucratic Y.P.F...
Quakers Shakers. Raised as a good go-to-meeting Methodist, Psychiatrist Sargant examined the dramatic conversions made by Methodism's Founder John Wesley, decided that they fitted Pavlov's pattern. After early failures, Wesley turned his back on appeals to the intellect, made a frank and crude assault on the emotions. He preached so eloquently and graphically of the horrors of hell-fire.and brimstone that the wayward among his hearers found the prospect an unbearable stress, says Dr. Sargant. He quotes Wesley as describing meeting after meeting at which the penitent burst into tears, cried aloud, sweated profusely, shook...
...plant, finally perfected a process that promised some day to supply gasoline competitively to the West Coast. But when Congress last year refused to allocate more money, the plant was shut down. Board Chairman Reese Taylor of Union, which has little production of cheap foreign oil and faces rising crude costs in California, decided to see what could be done with oil shale as a hedge against the future...
This was the first year that the Straus South unit had taken the Intramural title. In addition to scoring the record number of points, Straus had the highest crude-man-average, and captured the most events ever won in a single year...
...turbulent pre-Broadway road tour in 1947 and closed out of town. Whatever production difficulties it encountered, A Moon has internal troubles that go much deeper. In the current production, three accomplished actors cannot save, or even for long sustain, the play. Nor is the general effect one of crude mass: it is much more one of sheer dead weight. O'Neill's greatest fault-using too many and too flaccid words-flattens out a story that is at best never intense enough; it evokes, not the shock of living drama, but the ghost of other plays...