Word: ebro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Absence Minded. In Miranda de Ebro, Spain, the school principal ordered the school doors closed at 9 a.m. as a disciplinary lesson to late students, gave up the project when 50% of the teachers were locked...
...LONG SHIPS, by Frans G. Bengtsson (503 pp.; Knopf; $4.50) offers lusty Vikings lusting and looting, bedding and battling across Europe from the Ebro to the Dneiper. The slaughter seems remote and good-humored as Christianity comes to the heathens of the north...
...group of U.S. oilmen last week made a deal with Spain to wildcat for oil in the Ebro Valley, although no oil in quantity has ever been found in Spain. The group, which includes Delhi Oil and famed Geologist Everette de Golyer (TIME, April 3, 1944 et seq.), has put up $1,000,000 as a starter, while the state's Institute Nacional de Industria, has put up the same amount. If oil is found, the Spanish government will get 3%, while the American group and the Institute Nacional will split the remainder, one of the most favorable foreign...