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...Venezuela's political future seemed bright, the dark state of the world shadowed the nation's remarkable financial status. The basis of its prosperity has been the fact that since oil began to gush there in 1912 it has become the world's third greatest producer (No. 1 the U. S., No. 2 Russia). Other potentially big resources, such as gold, diamonds, iron have never had much attention. Venezuela pays for its imports mostly with oil royalties, import duties, wages, taxes. Before World War II, about 60% of its oil went to Europe. But today Venezuela sees...
...Westlake School for Girls, a private country day school for daughters of polite Los Angeles families. There she has made her first real acquaintance with her own generation. Friends already observe subtle changes in her personality. She wears long dresses to formal school dances and tolerates women who gush: "Shirley, I hope my daughter grows up to be just like...
...fray, but the nearest bullet was found on the floor four feet from the corpse. Some unknown missile had penetrated the breastbone and windpipe, grazed the esophagus, pierced the large artery (aorta) leading from the heart. Result: "massive, bursting hemorrhages of every blood vessel [in the chest], a great gush of blood from the mouth." Waddie was sure the bullet had done the damage, but attorneys for the suspect in the case insisted that the victim must have been stabbed with a dagger by someone else. Waddie studied the scene, then rigged up a chain of rubber tubes of graduated...
...same restaurants, seated at secluded tables, there were other, less martial women. Women dressed for peacetime, who opened their shining eyes as large as possible, so that the tears would not gush...
...name. Such are the Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp ("Phillips" riveted to "good turn"), Philmont (his 300,000-acre New Mexico ranch), Philtower and Philcade (his skyscrapers at Tulsa). Oiligarch Phillips last week did a good turn at Tulsa, where the Philbrook Art Center was opened. Its aim: to make culture gush in an oil town once called (by Harper's Magazine) a "cultural Sahara...