Word: oil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three Syrian trade officials flew off to Moscow, anxious to justify the press stories of bountiful Soviet aid "without strings attached." They took with them ambitious requests for Soviet rubles to build roads, railroads and a Euphrates irrigation dam to rival those that Iraq is building downstream with its oil royalties. Now would be seen how much Soviet Russia intended to do for the Syrian people, beyond making their country an arms dump...
...Third Game belonged to the ancient of the Yankees, Enos Slaughter, 41. The tireless outfielder, who gets his pep from a diet of blackstrap molasses and sunflower-seed oil, waited until the eleventh inning, while Whitey Ford, his sore arm suddenly healthy, held the Sox to a 1-to-1 tie. Then, Enos stepped to the plate, took an effortless swing at the first pitch and sent the ball high and far into the right center-field stands. After Hank Bauer's third-inning homer, that was all the Yankees needed to win, 2-1, and head home with...
...editor of Home, NBC's do-it-yourself TV "magazine," Arlene has coxswained a varsity crew, gone down in a diving bell and up on a "cat cracker" (oil refiner), and ridden a camel at the Bronx Zoo. She also showed Homemakers how to make cream puffs and raise chimpanzees. She was the first woman ever to open the New York Stock Exchange ("I blew the whistle and all these men came charging out of their offices and started making money"). When the gadget-ridden Home that Pat Weaver built closed up last month after 3½-years...
CITIES SERVICE CO. will make first major effort by any U.S. company to drill for oil in Africa's promising Sahara Desert. Deal is for fifty-fifty profit split with two French companies in a joint venture to exploit Sahara's proven reserves of 3.5 billion bbl., explore for potential reserves conservatively estimated at 7 billion...
...headed to sea, outward bound for the Persian Gulf, 6,800 miles away. No ordinary barge, the contraption bristled with a 140-ft. derrick, a crane, a heliport, had air-conditioned quarters for 50 men. Built at a cost of $3,500,000, it was the most advanced mobile oil-drilling platform ever built, and a device that its owners, British Petroleum Co. and Compagnie Franchise de Petroles, hope will open up a huge new oilfield off the shores of Arabia's Abu Dhabi sheikdom. But while the barge's owners are foreign, the barge itself is thoroughly...