Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recurring pattern of bloody revolt in French colonies from Indo-China to North Africa has sometimes suggested that France, like her Bourbon kings, has "learned nothing and forgotten nothing." Last week, as evidence to the contrary, France acted to forestall future Algerias, by launching a new deal in "Black Africa"-the little-known French domain that sprawls all the way from below the Equator to the Sahara. See FOREIGN NEWS, Timely Token...
Trade Not Aid. To spur economic progress in this pattern, the Administration encourages the flow of dollars to Latin America by trade and private investment. "The 168 million people in the U.S. cannot export prosperity to the 175 million people in our sister republics. There is only one really effective way to expand our trade, and that is to increase our imports from the area. The Eisenhower Administration has been notably successful in defending its trade policy toward Latin America, despite an annual barrage of proposed laws, tariffs and other restrictions designed to eliminate some competitive Latin American product...
...independents called angrily for major refiners to 1) cut back their imports of Venezuelan crude oil, thus making that oil available for direct shipment abroad, and 2) reduce refinery runs, to make even more crude available for shipment abroad. Furthermore, said the independents, refiners should change their entire historic pattern of refining oil: they should crack less gasoline, which Europe does not need, instead produce more relatively low-grade fuel and heating oil, which Europe does need...
...stepped Hines Baker, president of Humble Oil Refining Co., biggest U.S. domestic producer (300,000 bbl. daily), to make his case for the industry. Humble had supplied almost 50% of all the oil shipped to Europe in November and December-and it was also Humble that had set the pattern for the recent industrywide price rise by boosting the price it pays well-operators for crude oil. Said President Baker: "Once the Suez was closed, Europe was bound to have a shortage. In a situation like this, no one man, no one company, no one conservation agency," could be held...
Motion pictures come in cycles, and one of the more prominent cycles at the moment is dedicated to dissecting the workings of Big Business. The Great Man fits into the pattern since it takes a sharp look at the radio-television industry, but it is much better than most of its rivals. It lacks completely the usual coating of sentimental slush...