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...greatest concentration of rotary drilling rigs in the world were biting their way into West Edmond oilfield last week, 15 miles from Oklahoma City. West Edmond was spewing out a $500,000 monthly payroll and a major housing headache for the already oil-booming capital and its environs...
...Other ejected diplomats: in 1793, French Minister Edmond Charles Genet, because he had been appealing to the American people to upset President Washington's neutrality laws; in 1888, British Ambassador Lionel Sackville-West, after publication of a letter he wrote to a U.S. citizen advising him to vote for the re-election of President Cleveland...
...could not get enough of it." Mediums sprang to fame, set the ether vibrating with spirit music, spirit painting, voices, lights, icy currents of air, luminous faces, words written in fire. "A whole mine of mysticism hatching beneath the skepticism of the 19th Century," said the shrewd French Diarists Edmond and Jules Goncourt...
...London as U.S. delegates to an Allied conference on postwar education. They were: Arkansas Congressman James William Fulbright, former president of the University of Arkansas; Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish; U.S. Education Commissioner John Ward Studebaker; the State Department's Grayson Neikirk Kefauver; and Ralph Edmond Turner...
...Allied Medical Conference was held last week in the semicircular lecture hall of the University of Algiers. French doctors played host. About 100 British and U.S. doctors and a few Russians attended. There was real, prewar Gallic bonhomie provided by French doctors from Algiers (e.g., Professor Edmond Benhamou of the University) and Tunis (e.g., Paul Durand, director of the Pasteur Institute), assisted by a U.S. military band and cocktail parties. Points from some of the papers...