Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black cigars at the opera, particularly in view of the fact that for some months-past she has been in Bermuda, where she still is, with her husband, the scenic designer, who is designing the first legitimate theater on the island. Throck may be burning the midnight oil and smoking big, black cigars, but Juliet, never...
...Army last September, he and Secretary Kenneth Royall had agreed that he would have nothing to do with the Army's procurement. He had also sold out 90% of his holdings-300,000 bushels of oats, 200,000 bushels of corn, 300,000 pounds of cottonseed oil, 500,000 pounds of lard, more than 1,700,000 pounds of hides. On paper, selling out had cost him about $100,000 in profits. Still, he had to admit that he had "done pretty well . . . over all, I made a profit...
...legitimate way to "protect my family" against the declining value of the dollar. Was he profiteering in human misery? "Never," cried Pauley. "Making investments is the better way to put it. ... I am a free trader. ... I have been in the market for years-in real estate, rubber, oil, everything in which business judgment could make a profit, in the good old American...
...Lebanon were for all-out war by League members and economic pressure on backers of the U.N. partition plan. But Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan advised caution. In his desert fortress-capital at Riyadh, King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia said that reports that he would cancel U.S. oil concessions were "untrue and irresponsible." "Our friendship with the U.S. is solid and well established,'' said Ibn Saud. "We believe [the U.S.] made a mistake in the U.N. Palestine decision, but we hope [the U.S.] will correct...
This week, for the first time in 118 years of national independence, the people of Venezuela picked a president in a free democratic election. In jungle towns along the Orinoco, in grimy oil settlements on the Caribbean coast and in the flower-lush capital of Caracas, voters by the thousands trudged to the polling places. There they dropped small colored cards* in urns to indicate their choices, then had their fingers stained with indelible ink as a check against voting twice...