Word: edmonds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside Job. The Paris press, suddenly waking up to what France-Soir called "the most extraordinary enigma in criminal history," screamed MURDER. As a horde of reporters and cameramen built the case into a sensational story, a stocky, methodical detective named Edmond Bascou, one of the Sûreté Nationale's best, took over the investigation...
Soon after it was discovered, four years ago, Oklahoma's great West Edmond oilfield (TIME, Aug. 21, 1944) became the scene of a scramble. Many individual wildcatters and companies, using the greatest concentration of rotary drilling rigs in the world, began boring into its 30,000 acres in a furious race for oil. Last week West Edmond was the scene of an even more historic retreat. The companies who operate its 740 wells were getting ready to shut them down and pull out, with most of their equipment...
RICHER BY ASIA (432 pp.)-Edmond Taylor-Houghton Mifflin...
...first, and classic, account of German "psychological warfare" was Edmond Taylor's The Strategy of Terror (1940). In 1943, Taylor got a wartime job well suited to his gifts, as OSS coordinator with Lord Louis Mountbatten's Southeast Asia Command. Richer by Asia tells how 28 months in Asia changed...
...athlete of reality would know, according to Edmond Taylor, that journalists, political scientists and diplomats have built up a mythical picture of the political world: 1) by talking about issues instead of human beings, 2) by looking at the world from the distorting point of view of U.S. interests, 3) by creating a belief in "the certitude of certainty...