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Since they were forced out of Mexico in 1938, most major U.S. oil companies have shown little desire to go back in, despite repeated invitations. Last year, Cities Service Co., the only one that had not left Mexico, took on a job of drilling new wells. But otherwise, the best deal that Antonio J. Bermudez, boss of Pemex, Mexico's oil monopoly, could make was with J. Edward Jones, a small U.S. oil promoter, to drill 100 wells (TIME, Sept. 22, 1947). He drilled...
About his future--for veterans are a sometime thing, after all-Monro is not talking. He would like to write a novel someday, and not about the war, either. He drops in at the Armory every week for whatever sort of reserve drill they give full Commanders in the Navy. And he talks, a bit wistfully, of the little vacation he's going to take "after everything gets squared away." Beyond this, his plans are vague, except for the assurance that he "aims to be useful...
...relentless prober, tough as a drill sergeant with philosophy students, a hollow-cheeked scholar who despised automobiles and movies (the only movie he ever saw was a documentary on the theory of relativity). But hundreds of students flocked to his classroom to join his lifelong search for truth. Where did the search lead him? This week, a year after his death, Morris Cohen gave his answer in the form of a posthumously published autobiography, A Dreamer's Journey (Beacon Press...
...trade with which to make their way in postwar Germany. Every week, from 20 to 30 young wanderers turn up there-boys like 17-year-old, shock-haired Karl Waldhauser, who had been drafted to work in a Russian-zone uranium mine. After three days on a pneumatic drill, Karl escaped and crossed the border at night. Says he: "I never get homesick. Maybe that's because my father and mother are dead. Now I want to be a farmer...
When spring practice ends April 30, Art will have exactly four months away from the drill fields. But this simply means moving indoors to the charts and the blackboard; for during the summer, Art and his staff must re-evaluate the squad's strength on the basis of spring practice and the annual academic harvest. He must also elaborate on his system to fit the schedule and the capabilities of his personnel...