Word: mene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctored stories themselves had little effect. Councilmogul Al Vellucci, however, did sell his yacht upon reading about the Charles River parking lot. Balthazar Ali Khan called in to report his name was spelled Belshazzar. "Mene, mene, tekel upharsin," he warned...
...Mene Grande Oil Co.. a Gulf Oil Corp. subsidiary, got 126,600 acres of lake concessions and 98,800 acres of exploration areas. Cost: $121 million...
...Hanlon gone, a Camp Hill (Pa.) grandmother and Bible student, Mrs. Catherine E. Kreitzer, kept alive the suspense of The $64,000 Question. She got by the $8,000 question by naming in order the Aramaic words in the "handwriting on the wall" at Belshazzar's feast ("mene, mene, tekel, upharsin"). Mrs. Kreitzer will decide this week whether she will go for the $16,000 question...
...Mene, Mene, Tekel . . ." But Knowland's move came as no surprise to at least one Senator: Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. No sooner had Knowland sat down than Johnson pulled from his desk drawer a prepared reply. The words McCarthy had used in describing the Watkins committee, said Johnson, would be "much more fittingly inscribed on the wall of a men's room." Bill Knowland flushed red and scowled furiously...
...Cousin Andrew Mellon had made on some Texas oil leases. He salvaged the money so well that when he retired at 80 his empire (still 41% owned by the Mellon family) stretched from Venezuela, where only Standard's (NJ.) Creole and Royal Dutch Shell outrank Gulf's Mene Grande, to Kuwait on the Persian Gulf, where Gulf and Britain's Anglo-Iranian share more than 11 billion bbls. of oil reserves. Under him, Gulf got the prospecting rights to all of Denmark, and his global marketing and producing apparatus embraced subsidiaries through most of Europe, Africa...