Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath the graceful curve of the St. Louis Gateway Arch lies the empty shell of an underground visitors' center, partially completed when electricians' from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. local early this month walked off the job, stopping all work. Their complaint: the contractor had hired plumbers from the rival Congress of Industrial Unions, a labor organization formed by St. Louis Negroes, who cannot get into the lily-white building locals...
Reaching gracefully into the Los Angeles skyline, handsome in its vertically fluted steel and blue-grey enamel over coating, the structure looked like a new office building. Yet it contained not a single office - or, indeed, any room of any sort. The structure was simply a shell, set up for the specific purpose of shielding from sight and insulating from sound a drilling rig on Pico Boulevard...
...Occidental plans to drill 29 wells on its 513-acre Pico property, and with each new start, not only derrick and drilling rig will be moved, but so will the shell that looks like a skyscraper. At dedication ceremonies last week, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty presented a commendatory scroll to Occidental's chairman and president, Armand Hammer, who proclaimed: "The largest pool of oil in the world lies under Los Angeles. We believe that the Los Angeles fields can be developed to the profit of the city and its people. The problem is one of doing it without...
Claims & Controls. The companies have always survived such pressures comfortably. Though the government already skims 67% off the oil income, the biggest producer, Jersey Standard's Creole subsidiary, in 1964 netted a phenomenal $228 million, and the second biggest, Royal/Dutch Shell's subsidiary, earned $105 million. The current demands, however, seem a bit stiff even for Creole and Shell. Early this month the government hit them with back-tax claims totaling $113 million for the years 1958 through 1960 on the questionable ground that they had then sold oil too cheaply-and thus had somehow done Venezuela...
...found certain traits present in all homosexuals, including inner depression and guilt, irrational jealousy and a megalomaniac conviction that homosexual trends are universal. Though Bergler conceded that homosexuals are not responsible for their inner conflicts, he found that these conflicts "sap so much of their inner energy that the shell is a mixture of superciliousness, fake aggression and whimpering. Like all psychic masochists, they are subservient when confronted by a stronger person, merciless when in power, unscrupulous about trampling on a weaker person...