Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight of the world's biggest oil companies to operate the industry for 25 years, using Iranian technicians as much as possible. Biggest partner: Anglo-Iranian, with 40%. Five U.S. companies (Jersey Standard, Gulf, Texas, Socony Vacuum, Standard of California) will share another 40%, and Royal Dutch Shell and a French company the rest...
...from the pilot. An Associated Press correspondent went to a funeral parlor, where he talked the attendant into letting him look at the body of one of the passengers, found she had been killed by gunshots. But the British, who had put a ballistics expert to work checking a shell dug from one survivor's body, still held off announcing the attack...
Back again with the R.A.F., Bader was named a group captain (equals U.S. colonel), and in 1945, on the fifth anniversary of the Battle of Britain, his plane led the huge air parade over London. Today he flies about the world as an executive for Shell Oil. "[Bader's] main triumph," concludes Biographer Brickhill, "is not his air fighting: that was only an episode that focused a world's attention on the greater victory he was achieving in showing humanity new horizons of courage, not in war, not only for the limbless, but in life...
...were tossed into bonfires all over the nation. But 2,000,000 less experienced housewives, who had never before managed without ration books, were frankly baffled at the richness of the new territory that opened before them. TV screens worked overtime showing the subtle differences between top ribs and shell bones. Newspaper columnists turned epicure overnight, and at the Times Bookshop in Wigmore Street, the 93-year-old Mrs. Beeton's Cookbook, with its cautious presumption that eight pounds of steak should be enough to serve eight persons, once more took top place in the interest of browsers...
...Guatemala City, meanwhile, F-475 poured bullets into the vitally needed Shell gasoline storage tanks, and 40,000 gallons squirted out. One of the five forts that guard the capital was bombed and set on fire. Arbenz' emphasis, in his radio talk, on how much the air attacks had hurt, was an eloquent restatement of an old principle: in air war, as in poker, a low hand can win the biggest pot when the opponents hold nothing...