Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Menninger as saying: "One does not have to know the cause of a fire to put it out." While I have long suspected that some doctors simply buried their mistakes, I had hoped that psychiatrists at least analyzed theirs. Did the good doctor ever try to put out an oil fire the same way he'd douse a paper...
Wily old (80) Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, one of the world's richest men, reputedly learned to bargain in the rug bazaars of Turkey. So it was no trick for him to block a deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in the Middle East. The two oil companies had offered to pay upwards of $150 million for a 40% share in the Arabian American Oil Co.'s Saudi-Arabian concession (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Before the deal was made, Trader Gulbenkian wanted...
Last week, in London, Gulbenkian's lawyers finally brought his mighty antagonists to terms. The terms, as usual, were favorable to Gulbenkian. For waiving any claims to Aramco's oil, Gulbenkian will get a bigger share of Iraq Petroleum's oil (as will the French, who went along on the deal). Beginning in 1952, Gulbenkian will be able to buy the extra oil at a price halfway between cost and market price. When he sells, the proceeds will be protected against devaluation of the British pound; the American companies agreed to convert Gulbenkian's take into...
...many a home, because it caters to the social yearnings of all classes-from the sportsman who needs to know what kind of mourning is appropriate to driven-bird shooting (a black arm band on a tweed coat) to the unfortunate who still needs to be told that "oil is mispronounced 'erl.' " Some of it is what the whole book imagines itself to be: plain common sense and practical advice. But there is also a great deal of pedantic nonsense whose prissiness would drive a climbing Milquetoast to despair, as he struggled always to say "telephone" (instead...
First of the job interviews--which will be open only to fourth-year men--will be held Thursday and Friday, when representatives of Arabian American Oil Co., N. W. Ayer and Sons, and Shell Oil will come to the College with information relative to employment with their respective firms...