Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RICH ALGERIA will get its first refinery, and it will be North Africa's biggest yet (daily capacity: some 40,000 bbl.). Plant will be built, probably near Algiers, by combine of Mobil Oil, Standard Oil (N.J.), Shell, British Petroleum and three French firms...
...demonstrated again her remarkable capacity to seize and hold an audience with the sparest of motions. Under the glaring lights of the orchestra shell, her face, with its thrusting nose and red-gashed mouth, looked in repose like a mask of quiet despair. Her voice is untrained-she does not read music-and she has a limited range ("I have no high, only low, lower, lowest"). But she sang with a smoky, wistful quality that transformed the ballad Pirate Jenny into a shivering mixture of dreaminess and hate...
...poker, in war, in life, the doughty warrior had one question to ask: "What chance have I got of winning?" This week, in New Orleans' Ochsner Foundation Hospital, shrunk to a shell by cancer, Lieut. General * Claire Chennault, 67, lost...
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...reputation for good works, the E.I.D.C. group really started operating. Belle and his friends acquired control of Cornucopia Gold Mines, Inc., which owned a worked-out Oregon claim that had only one visible worth-a listing on the American Stock Exchange-planned to use Cornucopia as a holding company "shell" for half a dozen small subsidiaries (claimed 1956 sales: $5,200,000) that it had located and had taken options...