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Outside the wall, a young Hindu was seized. He had placed the crude bomb, then had stood well back waiting for the explosion. It did not come. As he moved closer to relight the fuse, the bomb went off. He was the only casualty...
...long-range oil picture was also dark. The U.S., he said, was using up its oil four times as fast as it was finding it. Said Forrestal: if the nation went to war tomorrow, it would be 2,000,000 barrels a day short of its minimum needs (current crude production: 5.3 million barrels a day). Forrestal wanted the U.S. to create a vast new industry to make petroleum out of coal, natural gas and oil shale...
...thought Krug was trying to bite off too much. The technology of making synthetic oil was improving so rapidly that such big plants might well be obsolete before they were in production. Know-how had already reached the point where gasoline from natural gas could compete with gasoline from crude...
...first to discover the truth of this conjecture was a Yorkshire linen draper. Shrewd, crude George Hudson, who married the boss's daughter, came into a ?30,000 legacy and swelled it, temporarily, into a railway fortune. In Hudson's heyday, he was able to play with $120 million of Britons' money.† "There he was," said a bitter rival, "crowing like a cock upon his own dunghill...
...last week's revival, instead of Blitzstein at a solitary piano, there was a white-tied Leonard Bernstein conducting a tiny orchestra. Bernstein did well by The Cradle's sometimes crude, sometimes clever music. But time had been less kind to The Cradle itself. It seemed more strident and less exciting; it had also become less topical. Its cockiness about labor- which had led it to treat the bosses with contemptuous laughter rather than bitter words-seemed early New Deal, not postwar. The Cradle's stagecraft, far from seeming daring, almost seemed dated. Only where Blitzstein...