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Subsequently, San Antonio's Slick-Urschel Oil Co. (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946) took over the drilling for a half-interest in the field. It drove down another 1,500 ft. Last week the big news came out. Slick-Urschel had struck oil and it looked like the biggest strike in years. The news sent Plymouth stock up 15½ points in two days...
...long ago, on street hoardings and building walls in Vienna, there appeared a slick American poster bearing a message stamped across an Austrian ration card (see cut). The message read: "Sixty percent of your ration is a present from American aid for Austria. The money that you pay for it stays in the country. The Austrian government uses it to help the needy...
Gentleman's Agreement. A slick argument against antiSemitism; with Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck (TIME...
...Chunky, slick-spoken Dr. Paul refused to discuss details of his escape or his activities since September. For some time to come, he thought, it would be best to lie low. He would stay in Bavaria, but in hiding. Said he: "There are Communist agents around here, you know...
...find I still preach best," Pastor Edmund Wylie once said, "when the congregation is against me." His son, Author Philip Wylie, felt much the same way. As a slick-paper fictioneer and essayist (Generation of Vipers'), he had profitably entertained large congregations, often as not by insulting them. But as a newspaper columnist he had emptied the church. Off My Chest was a vitriolic series of sermons against clericalism, bigotry, and the worship of "Mom." Last week, after three years as a syndicated columnist, Philip Wylie admitted defeat...