Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...area around Masjidi-Suleiman and the great refinery of Abadan at the head of the Persian Gulf, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. drew 350,000 barrels a day, with indicated reserves of six to seven billion barrels. Few oilmen doubted that the untapped fields north of Iran, especially round Lake Urmia and Samnan, held oil as well...
According to romantic legend, the young and ardent Rudolf had fallen in love with the youthful Baroness, who was small, round and luscious. For a brief time they were happy. Then, rather than obey Emperor Franz Josef's stern order to separate, they died together. Such was the cinema version of Mayerling which Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux played out against a background of Strauss waltzes...
...cocktail party before going to their bridal suite, where they were now & again called to the door by bellhops delivering champagne and other charivarious gifts. By week's end, the Curtsingers' haul included a five-diamond wedding ring, a bridal bouquet with orchids, a Hollywood-New York round-trip flight, a week in a hotel, a set of sterling silver, a vacuum cleaner and a whirl of nightclubs and shows. In future, equally hardy couples may get trips to Paris, new cars, prefabricated houses...
Sferic's antenna, revolving like a non stop merry-go-round, seeks out these static signals and relays them to the weatherman as straight-line flashes on the face of the cathode-ray tube. The angular positions of the flashes indicate the di rection the storm is taking. A network of stations taking simultaneous observations of the same flashes can locate their source and spot a storm position in a 2,000-mile radius. One drawback: not all storms stir up enough static...
...Swarthy, round-faced Mr. Dodero has the cash to back his ambition. Montevideo-born, he went to Buenos Aires and, when he was 15, got a job with a river boat company. Fifteen years later, he bought the controlling interest in the line. In 1942, Dodero founded Compaña Argentina de Navegación Dodero, which now operates a fleet of 333 ships. Last year war cargoes brought Dodero's company 19 million pesos profit...