Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than $45 million sending drill and rig out across its vast uncharted continent, often to the amazement of its aborigines and the terror of its kangaroos. More than 100 companies and syndicates now hold permits to look for oil in Australia. Such firms as Union Oil of California, Shell, Texaco, Delhi-Taylor and Kern County Land have so far drilled more than 700 wells, and four months ago Jersey Standard set up Esso Exploration Australia as a preliminary to joining the hunt. Last week two other big U.S. oil companies, Sun Oil and Continental Oil, entered the search, establishing...
...time is 1942. Two shell-shocked survivors of the Nazi terror meet in Lisbon and talk the night away. They are strangers, but they understand each other quickly because they have a common latter-day heritage "that was as much a part of German culture as Goethe and Schiller." They both know how to alter passports, how to dress inconspicuously to put off the police, how to conceal a vial of poison or perhaps a razor blade as a last remedy if they should fall into the hands of the Gestapo. The man named Schwarz describes a common enough European...
Since October more than 40 boys have been practicing, first in shell barges on the Charles, then in the tanks at Newell Boat House. They have been working six days a week since the beginning of the spring term. In early March they moved from the tanks to shells and remained in Cambridge over spring recess for twice-daily practice...
...Oriole still belongs to that hyperfundamentalist sect. Christadelphians claim to be living in the "last days of Antichrist," do not feel called upon to engage in social or political welfare, and are not supposed to vote, though Cousin Oriole has voted for Lyndon. Johnson's parents were Hard-Shell Baptists, but at 14 Lyndon joined the Disciples of Christ (the Garfield faith), and was baptized in the Pedernales River a few miles from where it flows past the L.B.J. ranch...
...agree to pay the Cuban government for the sugar. Later on, after the cargo was delivered to its destination in Morocco, Farr, Whitlock found itself confronted with two insistent claimants. The Castro government, acting through a New York agent, demanded its money. So did the surviving corporate shell of C.A.V...