Word: oils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acquisition policy of the Albright Art Gallery unfortunately influences many artists to become conformists and academicians of the oil-smear, calligraphic-abstractionism and mudpie-color schools. ARTHUR KAUFMANN New York City
...latitude 20° north. * One of the "rules" was that no nation could set up a "sphere of influence" in Africa unless it had effectively occupied the area. Some immediate results: the Germans rushed into the Cameroons, driving the British merchants out; the British hastily set up the Oil Rivers Protectorate on the Niger Delta to keep the Germans out; the French sent garrisons into West Africa, occupied Conakry...
...last week negotiated important trade agreements with Communist Rumania and Bulgaria, and reached a preliminary agreement for a "vast" Soviet program to supply technical aid and erect 20 industrial projects over the years, not with Soviet funds but with Iraq's sizable profits from its British-run oil wells...
...mass banquets. Instead the delegates:-including U.S. Chief Delegate Thomas E. Dewey -will be treated to a drink or two at a pair of official receptions, an evening of symphony at the municipal theater, and the welcome sight of a hard-working friend of the U.S. taking over oil-rich Venezuela...
...sometimes possible only with close friends, "but the door of personal testimony is never fully closed, and the word spoken by the sincere man . . . carries more weight than he realizes. The 'home with the open door' is everywhere one of the most immediate human influences. As an oil executive, engineer or businessman, [the Christian] should consider his main objective not in terms of dividends for shareholders, or power for America, or prestige for himself, but as an essential Christian ministry. This will call for imagination and courage and deep faith; yet it is the way to a satisfying...