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Word: oiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free its oil from the entanglement of Arab politics and the dangers of a blockaded Suez Canal, Iran last week signed an agreement with its Baghdad Pact partner, Turkey, for a $500 million oil pipeline. Presumably, oil from the rich new northern field of Qum will be piped over the mountains to a Mediterranean port in southern Turkey. Estimated savings in oil transport costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Bypassing the Arabs | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...staggering sums for new aluminum plants, paper and pulp mills, bridges and roads. One of B.C.'s fastest moving entrepreneurs is Frank M. McMahon, 54, who waited, checkbook in hand, one morning in August 1947, when the province opened a land office in Victoria, to parcel out oil prospecting rights in the untested Peace River country. Chairman of the board of Calgary's fast-moving Pacific Petroleums Ltd., McMahon paid $1,800,000 for drilling rights on 3,000,000 acres, five years later brought in Peace River's first producer. Today, Peace River ranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: CANADA: British Columbia at 100 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...Last Hurrah (John Ford; Columbia) is based on Edwin O'Connor's 1956 bestseller about the bad old days when political machines were run on blarney, graft, openhanded charity and shamrock oil, and about the last of the great Irish-American city bosses in the grand, 19th century manner-a man, the author protests, who is not to be confused with ex-Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two with Tracy | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...wealthy ($50 million) school such as Oberlin, money-getting must color almost all public pronouncements. It is no accident that at last week's 125th anniversary convocation, three of four outside speakers - the Ford Foundation's Henry Heald, the Carnegie Foundation's John Gardner and Standard Oil of New Jersey's retired Board Chairman Frank Whittemore Abrams - were close to the strings of huge corporate purses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oberlin's 125th | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...MILLION OIL AID is soon planned for Argentina by U.S. investment group spearheaded by George E. Allen, presidential golf pal. Group plans to extend $170 million in credit to Argentina, will do $300 million worth of drilling and build $320 million worth of pipelines, producing facilities in Argentina. In U.S. group are Atlas

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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