Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convinced listeners that Dio was still playing a heavy hand in extortion ("I'm telling him to put the pickets back on"). The other showed that Dio is a cog of sorts in the Hoffa machinery, which includes such officials as Teamster Organizer George Baldanzi. Teamsters' Eastern Conference Chairman Tom Flynn, and St. Louis Teamster Boss Harold Gibbons. And it also showed that one Tony "Ducks" Corallo, a mean-sounding tough with a long narcotics record, may well be a bigger fish in New York than Dio himself. Excerpts (with profanity replaced with electronic "beeps" to keep...
...Georgian harmony of Yale Divinity School, the 90-member Central Committee of the World Council of Churches began its tenth annual meeting last week, the first major World Council meeting in the U.S. since 1954. In attendance: 131 delegates, consultants and guests from 21 nations representing 170 million Protestant, Eastern Orthodox and Anglican church members. First question facing the nine-day meeting: How loud should the church's voice sound in the ears of the world's statesmen...
...Petroleum Corp., announced a second oil strike in the district of Dhofar in the sultanate of Muscat and Oman.* The two wells, on a 32,000-sq.-mi. concession held by Dhofar-Cities Service in partnership with Richfield Oil Corp., may mark the beginning of a major new Middle Eastern field...
...nature's freaks, a petroleum-like substance which, through geologic accident, failed to liquefy. The man who first saw the commercial possibilities of Gilsonite was Samuel H. Gilson, a U.S. deputy marshal in Utah and part-time prospector. One day in the 1880s while prospecting in eastern Utah's Uintah Basin, he found a crumbly, shiny, black substance which he mistook for a new form of coal. But when he tried to burn it, it melted. It was one of the world's largest known deposits of a natural pitch substance similar to what Noah supposedly used...
...tensions generated by Canada's historic postwar rise vibrated through the House of Commons one day in May 1956, when the Liberal government's economic czar, Trade and Commerce Minister Howe, brought in a bill to ensure the construction of a gas pipeline from Alberta to Eastern Canada. The franchise had already been granted to Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., a corporation controlled by U.S. oilmen; now Howe proposed to lend the company $80 million to start construction. In addition, Howe planned to set up a government corporation to build an uneconomic section of the line. Angrily...