Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey German summer of 1948 Joseph Stalin reached out to strangle helpless Berlin, and U.S. planners, although caught unawares, responded with a monument to man's ingenuity: the Berlin Air Lift. In late summer 1956 Western Europe faces a challenge that dwarfs Stalin's Berlin blockade. The great question: How, if Egypt's President Nasser closes down the Suez Canal-either by force or bungling-will Western Europe get the oil that is blood to its industry and life to its economy? The answer: a Suez Sea Lift...
Vital Statistics. The plan envisions the most immense operation in oil logistics in human history. The Suez Sea Lift calculates that Western Europe's oil deficit would be made up in two major ways...
...Suez Sea Lift calls for moving some 800,000 bbls. of Middle East oil daily around the Cape of Good Hope-a schedule that U.S. planners consider well within reason. The other 400,000 bbls. would come from increased Western Hemisphere production, most of it from the U.S. Current U.S. production stands at about 7,000,000 bbls. a day-with an available productive capacity of 2,000,000 more. The Venezuelan government last week announced that it stands ready to shove up its oil production by 500,000 bbls. daily (U.S. experts believe, however, that 200,000 would...
...pilots, regulate traffic and collect the tolls. Egypt would be asked to cooperate, and would be paid for its contributed facilities. If Egypt refused to cooperate, the users would set in motion the grand plan of economic strategy, underwritten by the U.S. and described as the Suez Sea Lift (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...could have spared itself its new competition for only $5. From the age of 15, Chicagoan Hefner longed to work for the men's magazine, made the grade in its promotion department after he got out of the University of Illinois. But he quit when Esquire would not lift its $80-a-week offer for a Manhattan assignment to $85. From his own Near North Side apartment, on less than $11,000, almost all of it borrowed, he launched Playboy...