Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry said that the decrease was due to the drop in scholarship applicants. The number of applicants willing to pay their own way remained about the same as last year. Henry speculated that "perhaps people have more money," or that the ten dollar fee discourages multiple scholarship applications. The number of candidates from prep schools was about constant, he added, with the slight drop of applications from Exeter and Andover from last year offset by gains from other schools...
...days when might was still right in the Middle East the British invented a technique for dealing with recalcitrant Arab tribesmen. The R.A.F. would drop leaflets on Arab villages demanding that they give up fugitive criminals or be bombed. Usually the trick worked, and the wanted man would be expelled from the threatened village, pursued through the desert, shot down or captured. On other occasions the population would flee the village, which the R.A.F. would then destroy. A fortnight ago in Britain's Aden Protectorate, which has been under desultory attack by the Imam of Yemen, the old technique...
...chopped at his challenger with a vicious, two-fisted attack that sent ringsiders' memories back to the second Louis-Schmeling fight of 1938. By the end of the first round, Saxton was on his heels. Midway in the second, a wrist-deep right to the midsection made him drop his guard; a left hook landed on his jaw and he went down for good. "Basilio never could have gone 15 rounds at that pace," said Saxton Wryly when he came to, "but then, he didn't have to, did he?" C| Running, as usual, no faster than...
Getty Oil Co., which is 82% owned by Getty and which controls a $1.5 billion oil-and-tanker empire, bought a 50% interest in the Neutral Zone eight years ago, when it had yet to produce a drop of oil. Today Getty holds one of the most important stakes in Middle Eastern oil, where he is the only U.S. individual producer among the giant corporations. Says Getty: "I own my companies. How many others do? There are just a few left like...
...pumping a record 3,500,000 bbl. daily-some 250,000 bbl. more than normal. What those who urge still another 250,000 bbl. daily increase fail to consider, snapped Thompson, is the fact that demand for Texas oil will soon decrease. The U.S. Bureau of Mines forecasts a drop of 350,000 bbl. daily in demand for Texas crude next month-and no businessman in his right mind hikes production in the face of a declining market...