Word: ras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piano player and a rounder, a whisky drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book's final scene, a Harlem riot, has the sweep of an epic nightmare...
...effective next week, was intended to trim U.S. oil company sales 37%, from 13 million tons a year (97.5 million barrels) to 9,000,000. The Arabian American Oil Co., which had poured $350 million into developing its concession in Saudi Arabia and building its big modern refinery at Ras Tanura (see cut), already had been forced to shut down 23% of its production, expected to be running soon at only 50% of capacity...