Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest companies can afford to gamble. They are there-in force. El Paso Natural Gas built a $750,000 division headquarters to operate the pipeline, has expanded it three times since 1952. This week or next, Shell Oil moves into a $500,000 headquarters, while Phillips Petroleum, Humble, Superior, Union, Carter, Gulf, Magnolia, Continental, Skelly and half a dozen other majors all have sizable operations...
...great trouble was getting the oil out. Truck and rail costs were so high that Four Corners oil was priced out of the market. To lick the problem, a combine of six companies (Standard of California, Gulf, Continental, Shell, Richfield and Superior) formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co., spent $50 million for a 16-in. line pumping 70,000 bbls. daily to Los Angeles. Now a second outfit, the Texas-New Mexico Pipe Line Co., has built another line, with 50,000 bbls. daily capacity, from Aneth field in Utah to Jal, New Mexico, where the oil goes into...
...through old vaudeville routines. But this is precisely what he is doing this week in his Boston stage debut. He evidently had the same yen that Sir Laurence Olivier recently satisfied in John Osborne's The Entertainer; and what's more, both Mason's material and performance are superior to Olivier...
Satire, according to the dictionary, lumbers along a gamut from hone wit to loud noise, trisected in equal parts of irony, ridicule, and bitterness. Satire has to bear the burden of both entertainment and enlightenment. And to be effective, it should be written from some superior vantage--such as talent...
...infantry regiment, where he became a chairborne corporal. It was in the melting pot of the French army that he began to acquire a basic sense of frustration. "Wherever I turned," he recalls bitterly, "there was injustice. There were always differences between us, the Moslem inferiors, and the superior Europeans. I was a clerk and I had to fill out forms for new recruits. For Moslems the forms were filled out in red ink, for the French in blue ink. That doesn't seem important, does it? It was important...