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Most oilmen wondered whether Jones would be able to market his bonds and raise the money to keep up his end of the bargain. (His machinery sent into Mexico so far consisted of one old drilling rig.) But Jones counted heavily on the oil shortage, which would make the bonds an attractive investment to smaller refineries which have been feeling the oil drought...
...rig looked like a gibbet, nailed to the white railing fence of the newly opened Branchdale Racing Park near Holly Hill. A noose dangled from it, well out over the dirt track. Few of the well-dressed South Carolinians in the cars lining the rail were old enough to recognize it. It was a truss for goose pulling...
Last month, Christian Democratic Premier Alcide de Gasperi triumphantly returned to Italy with the promise of a U.S. loan in his pocket. He resigned, confident that he could form a new Cabinet without the Communists. But last week, when he finally managed to rig up a new Government,* he had gained little, if any. ground...
...stormy night Bee was assigned to cover a bicycle race, and his packet of "Belleville Notes" missed the train to St. Louis. Chapin gave his cub correspondent a screaming tongue-lashing over the telephone. The quaking Behymer hired a rig, drove 14 miles to put the column of trivia on Chapin's desk. He got no thanks, and Chapin growled when he okayed Bee's expense account for $3 for the horse & rig, but his job was saved. He still thinks Chapin was a great man, "but very unscrupulous. He made a newspaperman out of me by keeping...
Corsage boxes under their arms, new white gowns carefully tucked inside evening wraps, the girls minced over worn red carpets through the cold night air to a Cypress Street entrance of stately Hotel Windsor. Well ahead of the 9:30 starting time, some retired to powder rooms to rig their elbow-length gloves, give themselves a last appraising look. The occasion: the 67th anniversary of the historic St. Andrew's Day Ball, theater of "coming out" operations...