Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...southern Sinai, and was even turning some of Egypt's T-345 against the defenders. Egypt fought back mostly with windy communiques ("We have annihilated the invasion forces"), a few ineffectual air sorties at Tel Aviv, and a tragicomic attempt by an Egyptian frigate to shell Haifa. The ship was crippled by Israeli aircraft rockets, ran up its white flag. The bemused Egyptian didn't even scuttle his ship, and it was towed into port while Israelis cheered from harbor rooftops...
...October sun, Budapest had the appearance of a city ravaged by a full-scale war. The streets were choked by rubble and glass, dangling ends of streetcar cables and the uprooted cobblestones and raveled steel of barricades. The air was full of the fine, powdery dust of shell-chipped brick and mortar. Soviet dead in scores lay in grotesque postures beside burned-out and still smoldering hulks of tanks, armored cars, self-propelled guns. Men in white coats moved from corpse to corpse sprinkling snow-white lime which transformed the dead into marblelike statuary. Where possible, rebel dead had been...
...goes the Wall Street maxim, stocks go down and commodities go up. Last week the maxim once more proved true. The news from Egypt set off the widest break in the New York Stock Exchange since the President's ileitis attack of June 8. Led by Royal Dutch-Shell. Gulf Oil and other oil companies with large Mideast holdings, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 6.62 to 479.85. But when the President pledged "no involvement." the market bounced up again. At week's end the market had more than regained its losses...
...would appeal to both horse breeders and horseplayers, he reasoned, as a way of separating the sprinters from the stayers. It would also give a line on the potential ability of the following season's three-year-olds. Liberally backed by owners (who were required to shell out more than $2,000 apiece in nominating, eligibility, entry and starting fees) and underwritten for $100,000 by the Garden State Racing Association, the race overnight became the world's wealthiest...
...oils: Shell at $30,702,649 dropped about half a million in net profits for the third quarter; Phillips Petroleum was 12% lower; Richfield Oil declined from $8,029,540 to $6,236,962; Atlantic Refining raised its net 92%, and Gulf and Sinclair also boosted profits during the quarter...