Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Qashqais plus Bakhtiaris and other tribesmen from the south teamed up with Kurds from the north, announced a tribal bloc which would have an influence far beyond its representation (probably 30 out of 136 seats) in the Majlis. Priority item on their program: to scuttle the Russian oil concession. When the election finally ended, Gavam could submit the Russian oil agreement with certain knowledge that it would be strongly opposed-which will suit him fine. He could sit back, finger his jade beads and chuckle-unless the neighbors across his northern border turned the heat on again...
...years women on foot had shuttled their daily loads of flour, oil, sugar and soap across the bridge. But Brazil and Argentina are South America's most powerful rivals, and many reasons of state had been found to delay the formal inaugural. Finally, it could be put off no longer. Said a bored Brazilian as Dutra winged south for the meeting: "I suppose somebody...
...guitar played by Mrs. Cecil Caves. On Sundays, Peggy's citizens attend St. John's (Anglican) Church, where 83-year-old Fisherman Albert Crooks, known as the "mayor" of the community, pumps the organ. Each night, at dusk, Fisherman Manuel walks over the rocks to light the oil lamp in Peggy's lighthouse...
...worship the pliers and the screwdriver rather than the hammer & sickle. And that's us-not them. . . . Don't go telling me they're going to drop an atom bomb on my home. They'll first have to learn the difference between borscht and lubricating oil...
...poor territory, but Bracy knew what its oil men, coal miners, farmers and railroaders wanted, stocked it for them. Sales, helped by the war boom, went up; so did Bracy's bonus. By 1944 Bracy was getting a bonus of $196,394 plus $25,000 salary. Stockholders began asking questions; so did other branch managers, cramped in straight salaries. Bracy was rocking the Kroger boat...