Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common customs barrier against the outside world. The second treaty, by pooling nuclear-research and power facilities, held out the hope that Western Europe might one day be close to self-sufficient in energy (and thus, among other things, no longer vitally dependent on the Suez and Middle East oil...
Last week Nasser sent his No. 1 military man, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, scurrying off to neighboring Saudi Arabia to patch things up with oil-rich King Saud. Earlier in the week, sitting before the cameras of Britain's Independent Television News-as Russia's Khrushchev did for CBS in the U.S.-Nasser sent an amiable grimace into several million British living rooms. "I'm sorry," he said, "about that period of bad relations between Britain and Egypt. We hope that both countries will work for good relations in order to be friendly again...
Fatherland Week, as the holiday is called, was the kind of glittering circus that could be mounted by no Latin American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club...
...plane America across the Atlantic in 1927, in 1929 flew with Byrd on the first aerial crossing of the South Pole, dropped in at Washington's Mayflower Hotel to reminisce with some old friends. Among them: Lieut. General James Doolittle (now a vice president of Shell Oil) and onetime Air Force Chief of Staff Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard Norwegian-born Balchen's World War II exploits recounted (he built a secret Army Air Force base in Greenland, completed 51 rescue missions there, later parachuted...
...Baytown, Texas, Attorney Sam R. Fisher, trying to persuade the city council to put off annexing part of a land tract, argued: "I don't know what you could possibly want with all that land. It hasn't anything on it except a few old dirty oil wells...