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...profits made on their oil outside the country as well as in it. Last December he struck an offshore oil deal with Japanese oilmen for an "integrated company" that would produce, ship and market Saudi oil and split profits 56-44 all the way up to the filling-station pump...
...domestic welfare, Dwight Eisenhower, among all the politicians in Washington, refused to panic when recession came. Time and again Democratic doom-criers, editorialists and some timorous Republicans demanded that he "do" something. He was in fact doing quite a bit: by fighting effectively against irresponsible tax cuts and wild pump-priming, he was proving that a sound free-enterprise economy could right itself without massive Government interference. He also was holding down the inflation that would have been the inevitable result of a big Government spending spree...
...year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list, began to pump for Rockefeller. Said he to a gathering of county leaders: "Either you guys support me while I pick the best candidate or you will get yourselves some chowderhead and get this election all messed...
...colonize the moon. Last week Dr. Peter A. Cas-truccio, director of Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s newly formed Astronautics Institute, pointed out one way to turn the moon's lack of atmosphere into an asset. Manufacturers of electronic tubes, he said, go to pains to pump air out of them so that the air will not interfere with the electrons. On the moon this is not necessary. The whole moon has a better vacuum than any manmade vacuum tube...
...indicates a reservoir of major proportions and almost an embarrassment of riches for Canada. Before the find, estimated Alberta natural gas reserves stood at 21 trillion cu. ft., which must now be revised upward. The new well alone could supply all the gas the new Trans-Canada pipeline can pump when it goes into operation late this year...