Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Romance, therefore, stays in the cocktail lounge for the most part. Rather one sees sordid slums, drab barracks in the oil fields, or one senses an incipient brutality at times, and a certain fatalism in the people mixed with an unquenchable joie de vivre...
Veils & Cadillacs. In other areas, there is uncomfortable compromise. Along the blazing coast of the Persian Gulf, in the oil-rich sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, are some of the most splendid private homes that imported U.S. and European architects can provide. Air conditioners purr in every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public...
...Cadillac, but they separate promptly. The women repair to the haramlik, remove their abas, and spend the evening chatting and sipping soft drinks clad in the latest New York or Paris fashions. The men go off to the salamlik to dine, exchange stories and fret about the price of oil. When the party is over, a servant notifies a woman guest that her husband is ready. She dons her veil and shroud, thanks her hostess and departs without ever seeing her host. But next day she may slip out in her car, doff her aba as soon...
...Oil. Those who looked beyond the car loadings could find considerable encouraging news. Retail trade is still at a higher level than in 1956, while personal income continues at a rate of $346.5 billion, $15.4 billion higher than last year. Detroit's automakers built 129,170 cars last week, the most since June and nearly 10% more than during the same week last year. And strong earnings reports kept rolling in from dozens of big and little companies. In electronics and appliances, General Electric, Motorola, Westinghouse, all had better nine-month earnings than last year. Oil companies such...
...never did. Instead, he shrewdly multiplied his fortune by investments (oil, real estate), spent hours avidly watching television. Last July, when he suddenly lost his oldtime pep, he dropped in at Stanford Lane Hospital in San Francisco for a checkup. The doctors first said it was anemia, then spotted leukemia. Mayer entered the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in September, had a series of blood transfusions. There last week, at 72, Louis B. Mayer died. Close by his bedside was his television screen, the only other force that had changed Hollywood as much as he himself had. Headlined the Hollywood Reporter...