Word: hemi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tanker Shortage. If the canal and the pipelines should close down, the West would have to find new sources of oil and tankers to move it. The Western Hemi sphere could step up production an estimated 1,300,000 bbls. to 1,500,000 bbls. without much trouble-enough for all U.S. needs and more than half of West ern Europe's. But tankers are in the shortest supply ever. Sending them around the Cape of Good Hope instead of through the canal would lengthen the Persian Gulf-Rotterdam round trip from 44 to 71 days. Experts estimated that...
...triumph of Richard is the triumph of sheer mummery-though inevitably the applause will not go to all the actors in equal measure. The women are excellent. Claire Bloom, as Richard's wife, has no choice but to portray a pallid case of hemi-Ophelia, but her softness is a fine contrast to the hard shape of Richard. Pamela Brown as the king's mistress, a role tellingly interpolated by Olivier, is magically effective; she says but four words ("Good morrow, my lord"), but she hangs in the offing like a sensuous portrait by Rubens, and fills...