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...nicely rounded program in Italy. The refineries will buy crude from Standard's Near East fields (thus saving Italy $4,200,000 annually in dollar imports), will sell refined products to SIAP (Standard-Italo Americana Petroli), Standard's Italian marketing subsidiary. Standard would also like to drill for oil in the Po Valley, where government-subsidized explorations have already struck a rich supply of methane gas. But Standard has run afoul of the old Italian law, which gives the government absolute title to all oil and minerals discovered beneath the surface of the earth. Standard wants...
...admirers at least halfway wrong. In this happily Buddless parody of Richardson's famous classic written in 18th Century idiom, Sinclair shows that though he may no longer be capable of striking Oil! he still has craft and subtlety enough to rig a strong derrick and drill some telling holes in the seamier sides of U.S. life. Not that his plumbings achieve any new level, for in Another Pamela, as "in almost everything he has written, Sinclair sticks close to his favorite theme: the way of life of the wealthy and the power that money...
...have much," the saying went, "but he has it for life." The civil service was notably honest and efficient, but it looked upon itself as the masters of the people, not as their servants. Wrote one angry German critic in 1909: "The sergeant-types, who properly belong on the drill field, have gradually penetrated to the highest ranks of public administration." The authoritarian civil service survived the Weimar Republic, was made to order for Hitler...
...barrel-chested, ramrod-stiff Jimmy Duncan came close to outshouting them both. The legend was that once when Jimmy told a lagging ground crew to "pick up those feet," the pilot of a bomber approaching the airdrome hastily retracted his landing gear. On an occasion when Jimmy was drilling a squad of recruits in a Wellington park, another squad half a mile away had to quit because they couldn't hear the commands of their drill sergeant, a noncom of impressive voice who was known as "Screaming Skull...
...given his opera of the year his usual patient and pernickety preparation, drilling his singers until they were ready to drop, illustrating passages by pushing his,hoarse old voice up into squeaky soprano register and down into roaring baritone range as well. At drill's end each day he dismissed a thoroughly exhausted cast -including Metropolitan Opera Baritones Giuseppe Valdengo (Falstaff) and Frank Guarrera (Ford), Contralto Cloe Elmo (Dame Quickly), Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman (Mistress Page) and Soprano Herva Nelli (Mistress Ford). But as they dragged themselves home, the inexhaustible maestro, 40 years the senior of the eldest...