Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world has wondered just how big the tiny republic thinks it is. For one peaceful spell, Israel's unsleeping sentinel retired, full of years and honors, to Sde Boker, a pioneer desert settlement, to plough fields, search the writings of the philosophers for "universal truth" and ponder the mission of man-and of Israel. Then, white of mane but wearing the familiar khaki battle dress of his wartime leadership, the hard, headlong man of decision came back to power...
...those who would understand what is behind the rest of Asia's anticolonial frenzy. Hong Kong is the place to get a bellyful of the original offense." But the British have turned generously to help the 667,000 refugees from Communist China. So have the Christian missions from the U.S.. "healing, counseling, running schools, staffing nurseries, opening clinics, building family centers." The most valuable mission activity in terms of the future, says Gill, is being done on university campuses supported by various denominations...
...carry out this mission, Thompson lunched with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming, picked up Administration support for diverting Venezuelan crude. He also urged new pipeline capacity "in the interests of national security" from Texas to the East Coast, possibly Philadelphia, where natural gas now arrives from Texas in the war-built Little Inch pipeline. An application to convert Little Inch from gas to petroleum products is already before the Federal Power Commission from Houston Contractors George and Herman Brown, and is sure to get quick attention...
Large blocks of Tidewater were held by Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), which created Mission Corp. as a holding company for Standard's stock in Tidewater and Skelly Oil. So Getty started to buy into Mission. By 1936 Getty owned 46% of Mission's stock, by far the biggest share, and elected all but one of his directors in a bitter proxy fight. That gave him control of Skelly Oil, but not quite enough to pocket Tidewater. After three years of knee-and-gouge battle, Tidewater made peace with
...These holdings spread-eagle over a fantastic corporate maze. Getty Oil Co. owns 14% of Tidewater. It also holds 42% of Mission Development Co., which in turn owns 47% of Tidewater. And Getty Oil owns 47% of the separate Mission Corp., which itself owns 10% of Mission Development Corp. and 3½% of Tidewater...