Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour at a time and can hobble only short distances on a cane, was already a success at 40, when he was disabled in the Chicago crash. Pennsylvania-born, he had worked as a roustabout in Oklahoma oilfields, earned an engineering degree at M.I.T., became a sales engineer for Shell, rose to president of Cleveland's National Refining Co. After the accident, Ryan sold out of the company, lived on courage and painkillers as he struggled to walk again...
...Standard (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum, Standard of California, Texas Co., Gulf; Anglo-Iranian, Royal Dutch-Shell...
...dealing merely with the pooling of coal and steel," he observed last week. "We are creating a new political reality." No man is better qualified to do the job of creating, for the "Little Howitzer," as his friends call him, has the driving power of an armor-piercing shell. When he gets hold of an idea, he never lets go. "If he were put under an anesthetic," said a friend last week, "he would still keep repeating 'We've got to create Europe' as they wheeled him into the operating room...
...looking with distaste at people ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...
...Salem, Mass., Coast Guard Photographer Shell Alpert glanced out the window and saw several bright lights shimmering in the morning sunshine. After calling a friend to verify what he could not quite believe, Alpert managed to photograph the strange formation just before it vanished. Even a dirty screen on the photo-lab window did not blot out the luminous formation near the power plant smokestacks (see cut). ¶ Flying over Greenfield, Ind., an airline pilot reported a brilliant green, tear-shaped light "going like a bat out of hell." ¶ In Chenango County, N.Y., citizens gathered in crowds to watch...