Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Creole Petroleum Corp., a Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) affiliate and Venezuela's biggest producer, bought 24,700 acres of underwater concessions in Lake Maracaibo, where a saucer of water lies over what seems to be an ocean of oil. Creole also took on 98.800 acres of exploration concessions in lands of still unproved value. Total cost: $25 million...
...Adair was in a deep coma. Fortunately, his record told doctors at Santa Monica Hospital how much barbiturate he had taken, and the empty pill bottle told what kind. It was too late for stomach pumping to do any good. He was promptly put on the standard treatment for such cases: an injection of picrotoxin to stimulate the nervous system, and oxygen by mask...
...week into Cairo's Metropolitan Hotel, rapped on Correspondent William (Steve) Stevenson's door and gave the Toronto Star's 33-year-old roving newsman 24 hours to get out of Egypt. Also expelled for spreading "falsehoods and fabrications to mislead public opinion": the London Evening Standard's pretty Anne Sharpley, 26, and the London Daily Mail's fortyish Eileen Travis, a U.S. citizen. That made a total of five correspondents sent packing since Egypt seized the Suez Canal...
SHIPPING COSTS are zooming because of Middle East crisis. Rates for dry cargo and oil are up as much as 200% in past year (to record $19.62 per ton for oil from Persian Gulf to United Kingdom). Ship prices are also following trend, with standard T-2 tankers currently pegged at $3 million v. $2.2 million as late as last April. 1957 PACKARD will be produced despite reports that Studebaker-Packard and Rescuer Curtiss-Wright would drop next year's model. In January, company will start turning out either face-lifted 1956 model or redesigned and upgraded Studebaker bearing...
...whisky, drinkin' whisky, and sippin' whisky." To such famed connoisseurs as Lucius Beebe, Novelist William Faulkner and onetime Vice President John Nance Garner, the best sippin' whisky of all is Jack Daniel's Old Time Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, a drink as distinct from standard bourbon as bottled in bond is from Old Popskull. Sparingly distilled by a secret, century-old formula in a quiet mountain glen near Lynchburg, Jack Daniel's has never tried to crash mass markets, never old more than 300,000 cases a year. What makes Jack Daniel...