Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When aging Harry F. Sinclair stepped out of the presidency of the Sinclair Oil Corp. in early 1949, his company was held in small esteem on Wall Street. Over it still hovered some of the onus of Harry Sinclair's jailing for contempt in the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the '20s. And in its later years the company seemed to have developed hardening of the corporate arteries. It lagged behind in expanding its production and oil reserves...
...MacArthur's aides, Colonel Laurence E. Bunker '26, announced Wednesday in San Francisco that "the General has placed a high priority on his visit to Harvard, in his list of things to be dome on his arrival in the United States...
...odds in 1923. Washington reporters came to his aid - and brought the country with them. In fact, some of the questions that he used to uncover Harry Sinclair's operations were passed up to him on bits of paper by reporters. The rest is the history of Teapot Dome...
Sometimes, aided by TIME Correspondents from other cities, he tied the testimony to other evidence on country-wide crime organizations. He outlined the legal steps needed to nail down perjury, contempt and deportation charges. He also sketched from memory the sordid story of Teapot Dome and other great congressional investigations from the past...
...worth hidden under her sari. In India, which bans gold imports without license, air smugglers were reported dropping gold by parachute and landing small gold-laden planes in remote clearings. This craze for gold was reflected in Wall Street last week where speculators snatched up gold-mining stocks (e.g., Dome and Homestake), giving them a rise of as much as 3 points. Despite the Treasury's denials, speculators were betting the official $35-an-ounce price of gold, frozen since 1934, would soon be raised...