Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside, someone pushed a .30 caliber carbine through a rose trellis, drew a careful bead, put two shots into Bugsy's head, two into his body. A shot that went wild lodged in an oil painting of a nude woman, holding a wine glass...
...toughest lands on earth. They are neither progressive nor playful, but of the simple fact that they have been alive a long time they are quietly proud. One of the proudest, and least bound by the past, is the King, Ibn Saud. He lets a few strangers into his oil-bearing domains, and he likes to hear tales of how life is lived beyond the sea. So, when his 14-year-old son, Prince Nawaf Ibn Abdul Aziz, prepared to come to the U.S., the King told him to be sure to look over a school for boys...
...sounded like a cruel joke. This week, the New York Times reported that during the past six months about 80 tons of food parcels had been shipped to the U.S. from one of the world's hungriest countries, Greece. The parcels contained olive oil, salami, cheese, figs. At the very time the U.S. prepared to give Greece major economic help, the shipments had risen to a peak of 16,000 parcels a week...
...white-haired road mender from Birmingham, Alfred Stannard, had been lucky too. His tiny cottage is crammed with 20 paintings that he has been collecting for 34 years. In a junk shop one day last summer, Stannard had noticed an unimpressive little oil, a landscape set in a fine Gothic frame. He took it home, started scraping away the landscape with his penknife, and came face to face with Henry VIII (see cut). He had rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait...
...United States . . . endorsed the bill I would still be against it ... it is vicious legislation." The talk was of railroads, said Barkley, but the bill applied also to water carriers, buses, trucks, pipelines and freight forwarders. It would "impose a transportation monopoly." Why not exempt U.S. Steel, Alcoa, Standard Oil and International Harvester...