Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Idol. Certainly, Van never felt entirely at home in the small, dusty East Texas town nestled in a forest of oil derricks where he grew up. He was born Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., in Shreveport, La., an only child, in the eleventh year of his parents' marriage. His father is a minor oil-company executive with a modest income, his mother a talented piano teacher who studied in New York with Liszt's longtime pupil, Arthur Friedheim. She was on the verge of making her debut under her maiden name, Rildia Bee O'Bryan, when her mother...
With Iraq's government enriched by oil revenues of more than $200,000,000 a year, the ancient city of Baghdad (pop. 750,000) is planning a future almost as glittering as its past. The sun-baked Abode of Peace by the Tigris has a new bridge, new Royal Palace and Parliament buildings, a TV station and its first air-conditioned movie. It has started slum clearance and flood control, and its ancient irrigation system, in ruins since Hu-lagu the Mongol destroyed it in 1258, is being rebuilt. To top off the all-out effort to make...
...Gropius' Cambridge (Mass.) Architects Collaborative hopes to have a plan for a new university, with mosque, ready by next September; Italy's Designer-Architect Gio Ponti has already designed a ten-story headquarters for the Iraq Development Board and an eight-story office building for GORA (Government Oil Refineries Administration...
...OIL IMPORT LID will be hammered down tighter on West Coast. Pressure is mounting in Washington for cut in quotas because imports to area have fallen 30% to 35% below ceiling of 220,100 bbl. per day owing to recession in demand. At very least, individual quotas of major companies will be slashed to make way for new importers, who have applied to bring...
...price for promising Middle East oil concessions is rising so fast that the so-called fifty-fifty profit split is as dead as a dry well...