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Eamon McDonough would be doing more for the future of the country if he were to go to both the church pew and the election booth on election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...with a choice between Uriah Keep ("I am aware that I am the 'umblest person going") and the Constant Tin Soldier ("He did not think it right to shout in uniform"). For myself, on election day I shall go not to the election booth but to the church pew and pray for the future of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 18, 1952 | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

When British and U.S. Government oil experts sat down in 1944, with U.S. State Department blessings, and agreed on a broad policy to stabilize markets in the postwar world, the U.S. oilmen were worried. President J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil Co. attacked the agreement as a "blank check" to the Government that would involve the domestic oil industry in a "vicious cartel system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Cartelization or Cooperation? | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...fuel. Moreover, the oil industry, which has to burn oil to generate the heat needed to refine petroleum, also can make big savings. Houdry estimates that a petroleum cat-cracking unit could save $320,000 a year in fuel by installing 12,000 of his units. Joseph N. Pew's Sun Oil Co., one of Houdry's original partners in his cat-cracking, is now installing the new Houdry process at a cracking unit in Marcus Hook, Pa. Houdry himself thinks one of his biggest potential markets is in the 5,700,000 home oil burners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: End of Smog? | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God . . . Jews, Protestants and Catholics should unite against a common foe . . . We may not be able to meet in the same pew-would to God we did-but we can meet on our knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: SHEEN SPEAKING | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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