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Fill 'er Up. Despite last year's peak production of two billion barrels of oil, the U.S. discovered about 700 million barrels more than it tapped. At year's end, known U.S. reserves were 24,741,660,000 barrels, an alltime high...
...production machine let 'er rip. The unfettered, unguarded U.S. economy turned out an abundance of things such as the country had never known...
Foppish & Fussed-Over. Musorgsky was, wrote Composer Alexander Borodin on first meeting him, "quite boyish, very elegant, the very picture of an officer: brand-new, close-fitting uniform . . . sleek pomaded hair, nails as if carved . . . refined, aristocratic manners, conversation . . . sprinkled with French phrases, rath er affected . . . some traces of foppishness. . . . The ladies made a fuss over him. He sat at the piano and, coquettishly throwing up his hands, played . . . very sweetly and gracefully, while the circle around him buzzed . . . 'charmant, delicieux...
...Er Lie." As the last favorable tide began to ebb, the union leaders made one desperate final effort to win the men back from Murphy's sway. "Listen," one of them shouted, "if you'll take the ship out on the tide, you can turn this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum...
...told that Sept. 1 was the "day of deliverance" when a U.S. destroyer and a Liberty ship would arrive to help them (the natives believed that the U.S. was a Communist state). The Liberty ship would carry a mosquito-proof hut and a kerosene refrigerator for every Martin Lo-er. The natives around the flagpole were the reception committee...