Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Petrobrás, Brazil's government-owned oil monopoly, asked foreign oil companies late last year to submit bids for supplying 90,000 bbl. of crude oil a day to a projected new refinery in Rio de Janeiro, there was a string attached. In passing, Petrobrás suggested that the oil companies might like to offer financial aid towards construction of the refinery. Last week word came from Brazil that Petrobrás had accepted a Texas Co. offer to supply 15,000 bbl. of crude a day and to make a fiveyear, 6% loan...
Died. Belle Livingstone, ninetyish, exuberant, high-living hostess who gave a gold-faucet elegance to the era of bathtub gin as the manager of a string of high-bracket ($5 a drink for "Jersey champagne"-grape juice and ethyl alcohol) Manhattan speakeasies; in New York City. Belle maintained (in Belle of Bohemia, a wildly inventive autobiography) that she was discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads...
Heckscher continued his long string of intercollegiate victories by trouncing Princeton's Ray-Evans, 12-15, 15-13, 15-8, 15-6. The Crimson captain started slowly but soon gained control of the match, never giving Evans much of a chance...
...truth" is the pious text to which Real Truth magazine cynically subscribes in its impious operations, "and the truth shall make you free." The kind of truth that Real Truth publishes has made its publisher (Steve Cochran) free of financial worries. Once a nickel-and-dime pressagent for a string of strippers, he can now afford to have the Rolls brought round to a Park Avenue address. But then all at once circulation, and with it Cochran's elegant new world, begins to crumble. "What we need," he storms at his harried staff, "is a really big piece...
Generally considered to be the top college team in the country, the varsity was a solid pre-match favorite to bring its season's record to 5-0 and extend its undefeated string which had stretched over the past two years. But Navy never gave Harvard an inch, and only number one man Ben Heckscher was able to win his match...