Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with California Arabian Standard and presumably with Ibn Saud's representatives for direct participation in the oil exploitation. This, if it went through, would be historic -for the first time in its history the U.S. Government would embark upon a career as a speculative oil magnate on foreign soil. Nor could New Deal "anti-imperialists" readily complain, for this was a pet project of oilman Harold L. Ickes...
...units had been tested in Sicily. It had received its final temper in seven days of shock and fire at Salerno. The Fifth had been organized in North Africa. As its Commander in Chief, Mark Clark had military jurisdiction over 225,000 sq. mi. of North African soil. He established headquarters in the vacated Ècole des Jeunes Filles at Oujda, in French Morocco, a town of 35,000 (less than half of whom are Europeans). Around Jay a sparsely-settled, varied terrain-mountain, desert, plain and seacoast-an excellent practice ground...
...trade] agreements . . . should not be taken as having any political significance. . . . His Majesty's Government . . . remain disappointed at the determination of successive Argentine Governments to maintain neutrality. . . . Axis nationals are still free to conspire on Argentine soil against the interests and security of the United Nations...
...Fannin County, the Rayburns are known as "black-dirt folk," the flattering description of the more opulent farmers and cattlemen who own the county's best rich, deep black soil. They stand apart from the folk on the "grey-dirt" farms, where only a thin layer of slate-covered loam hides the limestone...
...clocks, sent as far as St. Louis for a broken-down washing machine, fixed them up and sold them at cost. Other dodges: 800 lilies were sold to workers at cost at Easter; the less pious can buy at any time special Varga-type-girl calendars. An Albina soil expert counsels 1,000 Victory gardeners. Haircut absenteeism was cut by persuading nearby barbers to sloganize "An Albina Man Is Always Next." Albina's own cobbler gives three-day service v. three weeks downtown. Result: absenteeism at Albina has dropped from...