Word: oil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rushing out declarations of friendship to Nasser, and more slowly responding to Russia and Red China's offers of recognition, the new rulers began to make cooing noises toward the West-perhaps out of conviction, perhaps out of expediency. Apparently no more anxious than Nuri asSaid to lose oil royalties, they announced that Western interests were in no danger, and throughout all the week, the vast Kirkuk and Mosul oilfields kept pumping and the pipelines kept flowing...
...alike. Franco is a shy honor student, and Carlos Alberto is a husky athlete. Maria Fernanda is quiet, Maria Esther a chatterbox, and Maria Cristina somewhere in between. But they feel their special ties. The father, an Italian immigrant who got rich with textile mills and vegetable-oil factories, says the five are a kind of "Mafia," with their own secret jokes and fierce loyalty. The children chatter in Spanish among themselves, speak Italian to their family and English in school...
...were reported in last week's A.M.A. Journal by two Manhattan researchers who compared 1,171 male executives (ranging down from directors, corporation officers and general managers to division heads and auditors) with a mixed group of 1,203 nonexecutives (including 563 women). They worked for the Standard Oil group of companies, largely in Rockefeller Center's tallest (70 stories) skyscraper. All were white-collar types who visited the companies' medical department for voluntary health examinations...
...Moss's day; after only 75 miles his engine was smoking, and he was forced to give up. Mike Hawthorn tucked himself comfortably into second position, just behind Britain's Peter Collins in another Ferrari. But then Hawthorn's car began to develop oil-pressure trouble. Hawthorn nursed it carefully, hung on in second place, lost precious seconds when he had to pull into the pits for extra oil. Though he then began to pick up time on Collins' speeding Ferrari, it was too late to catch...
FOOD MERGER is in works between fast-growing Corn Products Refining Co. and Best Foods, Inc. to create grocery processor second only to General Foods Corp. (annual sales: $1 billion). Corn Products (Mazola salad oil, Karo syrups) grossed $495 million last year, while Best Foods (Nucoa margarine, Hellmann's mayonnaise) grossed $114 million...