Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lacking water power, coal or petroleum, Cuba runs on imported oil. For many years, the oil has flowed from Shell, Jersey Standard or Texaco wells in Venezuela, traveled in Shell, Jersey Standard or Texaco tankers to Cuba, been refined at Shell, Jersey Standard or Texaco refineries at Santiago or Havana. It was paid for with dollars earned by selling sugar...
...chief economic brain, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Fidel Castro last week turned to Russia for the oil to run Cuba. In doing so, he seized a $20 million Texaco refinery and a $35 million Jersey Standard (Esso) refinery, both U.S.-owned, and a $20 million refinery of Canadian Shell...
...international sculling's foremost character-and finest practitioner. Last week, warming up for a try at his fourth straight victory in the famed Diamond Sculls at Britain's Henley Royal Regatta, the 6-ft. 4½-in., 196-lb. Mackenzie was skittering his one-man shell across the water like a nervous water bug. But. as always, he was relying almost as much on gamesmanship as on power to preserve his reputation as the world's best sculler...
...winning for the third consecutive year, the crew defeated the highly-regarded Detroit Boat Club shell by 1 1/2 lengths in the final round, winning in the impressive time of 6 min., 47 seconds. Only once before, and never in this century, has a crew won the Thames Cup three consecutive times...
...Shell Shock. In Waverly Hall, Ga., Joseph D. Miller's small foreign car veered off the road and turned turtle after running over a tortoise...