Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope, too, that we will find a way to create an atmosphere of genuine bipartisanship in which our foreign policy can be supported by all citizens. For it is necessary that those who are trying to destroy the free world clearly understand that we will unanimously support the man who takes the leadership-and that man necessarily will have to be the President of the United States...
...Russian indignation, parades, protest meetings. All of this uproar might easily obscure the main facts of the week: that in the troubled crossroads of the Middle East, the misty but passionate creed of Arab unity had destroyed every major Western position; and that the West had yet to find a way to live with the creed or to bring it down-and had not even decided which course was more desirable...
...specific purpose: to develop." Tishman covers the whole spectrum of real estate, from buying and building to renting and managing. The company specializes in opening up new areas of cities, is often followed by other firms once it builds. "If you get there first," says Tishman, "you find remarkably little competition. I first trust my instincts to pick the sites, then take a thorough economic survey. If the survey bears out my instincts, we go ahead. If not, I stick with the survey and forget my instincts. This is no business for guesswork...
...Reluctant Drillers. The first real oil find came in 1954. Shell Oil brought in a 1,170-bbl.-daily well at Desert Creek in nearby Utah. But the biggest discovery came in 1956. The Texas Co. tried to get other companies to come in on a deal to drill in the Aneth section of southeastern Utah, where the lease was about to expire, found no takers, and finally went reluctantly ahead itself. Result: it bored smack into the Aneth pool with estimated reserves of 300 million bbls., the biggest find since the Williston Basin seven years...
...have in a sense been used up and thrown away. The women, as usual, are in control. All in all, the book is satisfactory seashore entertainment. Anyone reading it on certain Long Island beaches need only look up from the pages to find the characters-if not the plot-all around him in the sand...