Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Djakarta to talk about the possibilities of a joint operation in the islands with Garuda Airways, the national airline. U.S. Steel is contemplating nickel mining in West Irian, Freeport Sulphur is surveying copper prospects, and no fewer than 19 companies are competing for the right to drill for offshore oil around the big islands of Sumatra, Java and Borneo...
Americans, who may eventually spend about $100 million altogether on Indonesian ventures, are getting competition from other nations. Among the 19 bidders for offshore oil rights are French, Canadian, Japanese and Australian companies. Italy's Lambretta is dickering to build a motor-scooter plant to put more of Indonesia's 107 million people on wheels. The Netherlands' Philips' Electric, through a subsidiary, intends to start a radio-parts factory...
After Napoleon. Reyre, a career banker who took charge of Paribas in 1948, has so far multiplied its assets tenfold, to $1 billion. A constant innovator, he was the first French banker to bring out convertible bond issues, invest in the Sahara oil boom, and create an open-end investment fund to lure small investors into the French stock market...
...faker strips such pieces with lye or paint remover; he refinishes them with stain, oil or varnish, sands their corners, and then "distresses" them with chains and mallets-that is, he gives them a good pounding to lend the battered allure of great age. The suspicious customer should examine the drawers of wooden pieces. Fakes are often hinged together by eight to ten machine-made dovetails; the genuine article has three to five irregularly shaped, hand-carved dovetails...
...oppose the draft unequivocally. It is an instrument of oppression both here and abroad. The so-called "commitments" for which the power structure claims we need an army are those of an imperialist foreign policy. Few Americans have vested interests in United Fruit or Standard Oil. Yet it is to protect the interests of precisely such corporations that American soldiers are forced to kill and die. No American would willingly give up his life--or even two years of it--just to protect the business interests of the few. Thus the Establishment must persuade the soldier that revolutions are Communist...