Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be taught that since Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt, there has been but one or two Presidents of patriotism and ability in this country; and that several of our Presidents have been thoroughly unscrupulous." <$ "They will be instructed that they should oppose all participation in war unless the vital interest of the United States is affected, and especially that they should oppose military service by Americans as unpaid Hessians in Europe and other countries...
Nessfeness' chief tasks have been not only to find hidden talent but to interest promising students in higher education. Now supported largely by College Campus Chests all over the country, the service talks to hundreds of students and parents a year, guides them in choosing a college best suited to their needs, arranges for the necessary tests, provides them with money to supplement whatever scholarships they win. Since 1948 Nessfeness has placed 4,000 boys and girls in 300 interracial colleges. In only two years its Southern Project, which concentrates on the Deep South, has placed...
Getty Oil Co., which is 82% owned by Getty and which controls a $1.5 billion oil-and-tanker empire, bought a 50% interest in the Neutral Zone eight years ago, when it had yet to produce a drop of oil. Today Getty holds one of the most important stakes in Middle Eastern oil, where he is the only U.S. individual producer among the giant corporations. Says Getty: "I own my companies. How many others do? There are just a few left like...
Getty's everyday pleasures are munching maple sugar candy and talking over big-wheeler deals in English, French, Arabic, German, Spanish or Italian. He has plenty to talk about. Besides his $300 million interest in Getty Oil, he controls 64½% of Tidewater Oil*($460 million worth), 59% of Skelly Oil (worth $335 million). He also has .417% of the Iranian Oil Consortium (worth about $8,000,000) and Oklahoma's $15 million Spartan Aircraft Co., $10 million worth of real estate from Acapulco to Manhattan's plush Hotel Pierre...
...Paul Getty as a "stock man" rather than an "oil man." But Getty proved he was an "oil man" in the Middle East, where he felt he needed reserves to mold an integrated oil empire. In 1949 he bought the oil rights to Saudi Arabia's 50% interest in the Neutral Zone. The price: a sky-high $9,500,000 plus a minimum $1,000,000 a year for three years -against royalties of 55? a bbl. Then Getty pumped $3,000,000 into exploration and development. Not until 1953 did a showing of oil come up from...