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...Constellation landed. Out stepped W. Averell Harriman (see box) and his wife. The four men, antagonists in the great oil dispute which threatens Western Europe's oil and the world's peace, pressed forward to greet him: Iran's Foreign Minister Bagher Kazemi, representing a government hellbent on nationalizing oil; U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady, who had tried his hardest to mediate, failed, and was quitting (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS); Norman Richard Seddon, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's harassed chief representative in Iran; and British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd, who first said Harriman's mission...
Ferment. The nation had half forgotten the kind of convulsions with which it had been seized in the years after World War I. The U.S. had not only been hellbent to shake off the past, but full of a kind of callow hunger for sensation. The flapper who bobbed her hair, bound her breasts and wore knee-length skirts was almost duty-bound to get "blotto" by drinking gin from hip flasks. "I want to live my own life," cried the '20's movie heroine, and millions tried to imitate her. Literature was full of ferment, religion...
...hellbent to keep Beeville cleaned up so a lady can go up the street day or night...
This, in TIME, must shock all thinking men. Nor is this the first time in recent years that this same gross error has marred your factual pages. I humbly suggest that TIME reporters may search throughout this perilous world, from icebound Greenland to hellbent Reno, from Glasgow to Shanghai, and not find so much as one bottle of Scotch whiskey with which to fortify themselves in their admirable pursuit of truth...
Target for Tonight. In Dinkelsbuhl, Germany, there was a near panic when somebody started a rumor that the planet Saturn had jumped its orbit, was hellbent for Dinkelsbuhl...