Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position to dictate to the Arabs, since the Arab chieftains cannot keep power without American dollars for Arab oil. They would never so much as think of negotiating with the Russians-their feudal life cannot withstand the inroads of Communism, and their religious fanaticism recoils from Soviet irreligion...
...Oil & Poetry. PMAsters, many a steelman among them, gasped. When they had helped elect Jim Duff governor in 1946, they had no reason to expect that he would be anything but "regular." Before he got to Harrisburg, the only public office he had ever held was the solicitorship of his native Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb. Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success. On the side, he liked to read Elizabethan poetry...
...Politics. Here was the other side of appeasement's coin. Kiss 'em or kill 'em, but don't come to grips with reality. Don't let the troops in Greece fire a shot-somebody might get hit. Don't worry about essential oil supplies in the Middle East-somebody might make a profit. Don't get into the China war-the government is corrupt. Don't give Western Europe a military guarantee against Russia-it might have to be kept. Don't speak up for U.S. ideals of democracy- rude persons...
...news could be "completely organized," i.e., laid out in a fixed pattern of departments, such as National Affairs, Sport, Foreign News (some of which could be further divided into sections such as Congress, France, Oil...
Such arguments rationalizing a weak Palestine policy are cold and narrow. Motivated by a desire for profits and hysterical over the possibility of Soviet infiltration, the oil interests failed to consider the effect of a U.S. reversal on the Jews and its subsequent repercussions in the U.N. According to the current rules of the game, it will be perfectly all right for Arabs to slaughter Jewish settlers as long as they stay within reasonable bounds and do not constitute a threat to the peace. The concessionaires are quite willing to swap a human life for a tankful...