Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iraq Petroleum Co., which produced 136,000 barrels of oil daily in 1950 (1.3% of total world output), mostly for the European market, is owned jointly by Anglo-Iranian (British), Compagnie Française des Petroles (French), Royal Dutch-Shell (Dutch-British), and the Near East Development Corp. (Socony-Vacuum, Standard Oil Co., N.J.), each with 23.75% of the shares. The remaining 5% is owned by shrewd old Manipulator Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (TIME...
...better that her rusted shell Should rest beneath the wave; If naval hearts have turned to lead, Then leave her to her grave; Left flounders man her silent gun, Let squid now grasp her wheel; For men once bold, have lost their nerve, And only ships are steel! Stephen O. Saxe '51 and Andrew E. Norman '51, With thanks to Oliver W. Holmee...
Coxswain Carver's gang tried hard. But they didn't go very far. The favored Cambridge crew skimmed off to a six-length lead in the first half-mile of the horseshoe-shaped 4¼-mile course. The heavier Oxford shell, fighting the choppy, flooded stream, began shipping water from the start, soon swamped and gurgled to a stop...
...spectacle of "Admiral" Carver, adrift in the Thames, was almost too much for the British, whose sensitivity on the subject of U.S. admirals, even in a racing shell, had been recently heightened by the appointment of a U.S. officer to command NATO's sea forces. As Carver was hauled dripping to the shore, the crowd burst into a tumult of delighted ribbing...
Because the rules make the race no contest if one shell fails to finish the first mile, Admiral Carver's Oxford shell and Cambridge raced again* this week. It was official this time, but still no contest. Cambridge won by 15 lengths...