Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For three years U.S. oil companies (among them Gulf, Jersey Standard, Socony-Vacuum, Caltex) have been urging the Italians to modify their restrictive 1927 mining law, passed under the Fascists. The companies hoped for the prevailing 50-50 split of profits after taxes -the successful formula in Saudi Arabia and...
Up Du Pont. In chemicals and mining, Union Carbide, Du Pont and National Gypsum all reported banner sales and earnings. At Union Carbide, President Morse G. Dial listed alltime record sales of $857 million, record earnings of $101 million for the first nine months, 60% higher than 1954. Du Pont...
Shortages have grown worse. Chrome-mining firms cannot even get enough foreign exchange to buy dynamite; textile mills have closed because they cannot get funds to import wool tops and dyes. The sinking state of Turkey's credit has scared off foreign enterprisers who might otherwise have taken advantage...
While cables passed back and forth, fresh violence boiled up. In one town masked terrorists disarmed, bound and gagged five constables; in another a gunman shot and critically wounded a British mining engineer. In still another a Greek Cypriot policeman fell dead from an assassin's bullet. In the...
Brooklyn's joy was shared by the iron-mining hamlet of Witherbee. N.Y. (pop. 1,050), hometown of Johnny Podres, the son of a Lithuanian-American miner. Series Hero Podres, who earns about $1 1,000 for an entire season's work, stayed in Manhattan just long enough...