Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appointed U.S. delegate to the United Nations last year, Humphrey roamed U.N. lounges asking questions about world affairs, frequently ended up explaining and defending U.S. foreign policy. Roaming Spain, Italy, Greece, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt last month, he kept asking questions, kept speaking out for U.S. policy. In the process Humphrey learned some new facts of Middle East life...
...Piceance Creek Basin is only a small part of far vaster shale beds throughout Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The problem is how to get out the oil on a paying basis. The U.S. Bureau of Mines worked on the problem in an experimental Colorado plant, finally perfected a process that promised some day to supply gasoline competitively to the West Coast. But when Congress last year refused to allocate more money, the plant was shut down. Board Chairman Reese Taylor of Union, which has little production of cheap foreign oil and faces rising crude costs in California, decided...
...fires to distill out the shale oil. Though the oil recovery may not be high, the Sinclair idea would save mining machinery, possibly produce lighter oil for the pipelines. In Denver, the Oil Shale Corp. has a small new pilot plant designed to test the Swedish Aspeco retort process; this distills out the oil by whirling crushed shale mixed with superheated porcelain and aluminum balls in a rotating drum, also by-produces natural...
Whichever process wins out, the experts are now sure that shale oil can be produced commercially before too many years. Analyzing the shale future in Colorado, the University of Denver's Research Institute says that a 1,000,000-bbl. daily production is possible...
Died. Arthur Fisher Bentley, 86, philosopher, political scientist, author (The Process of Government), collaborator with the late John Dewey on Knowing and the Known; in Paoli...