Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like any lively, ambitious cross-section of young Americans, TIME'S office boys & girls (average age: 20 years) burn plenty of extracurricular midnight oil. Some go to night school and college; a few work for their M.A. or Ph.D. degrees; office girls take our courses in typing, shorthand, etc. The results are varied and interesting. Not long ago one of our OBs left to become an instructor at Amherst College, another went to South America to be a professional wrestler, an OG blossomed into a Conover model, and an OB who had departed to become a monk returned because...
Iraq's King Feisal I used to spend his spare time playing with a tame leopard. His son, King Feisal II, 11, a more progressive monarch, has spent his summer holidays in Britain studying Western industrial methods. At an oil refinery the boy king from Bagdad sat in at a round-table discussion of scientists and technicians. In the course of the discussion one expert said: "I always find I can think much quicker when I am riding a bicycle." Asked King Feisal II: "Why don't you ride a motorbike and think twice as quickly...
Last week, the A.P. got into the act with a dispatch from a Jerusalem staffer: "The story was told in Palestine and Trans-Jordan bars and found its way into print. . . . The Gazelle Boys now number five. . . . One, the wags say, is being trained by oil companies to do a 50 m.p.h. pipeline patrol. Another . . . is being taught English by professors . . . at Beirut, so they can learn what the gazelles talk about besides love...
Plunger. In Los Angeles, Frank Knapp Jr. hired crews to dig for water, drew a blank at 100 ft., dug 90 ft. deeper, now owns an oil well...
...president of Standard Oil (NJ.) couldn't believe his auditors. Could rich Standard actually have a full-time employe (identified only as "Minnie") who was paid only $3.20 a month? An investigation proved that this was indeed true...