Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missing Billion. King Saud's largesse is the talk of the Eastern world. But because the son of the late great Ibn Saud has never deigned to publish a statement of his revenues and expenditures, nobody knows precisely what use he has made of the underground wealth that Allah bestowed on him. In The Middle East, Oil and the Great Powers, published last week in Manhattan (Praeger...
...whole," said N.P.A. "the story is a good one." Creole plays the good citizen of Venezuela principally by paying its taxes; it pioneered, between 1943 and 1948, the historic agreement with the government by which the company pays half its profits to Venezuela, the owner of the underground crude. But according to N.P.A., Creole also: ¶ Pays top wages. Common laborers earn $6 a day, foremen $13, plus so many fringe benefits, e.g., Sunday pay, year-end bonuses, housing, schooling, hospital care and cheap commissary supplies, that real wages are nearly triple normal wages. ¶ "Lives in a fishbowl." Example...
...wrote some-including Sixteen Tons. It was recorded for Capitol recently by deep-voiced Tennessee Ernie Ford, and leaped to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made. It has a driving beat, like the cars clanking to and from the underground yard, and its words carry a kind of homey cynicism: You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...
...scientific knowledge. Tillich criticized ways employed by some religionists to expedite this revival, maintaining that evangelists--"now conformists"--have used religion as a tool rather than an end in itself. In conclusion, Professor Tillich noted the present lamentable state of individualism. "The nonconformist," he said, "will have to go underground...
Guerard survived the battle but soon faced the War, and like so many other scholars, he entered the Psychological Warfare Division of the Army. With the job of doing political intelligence among the French underground, or "maquis," Guerard remained in newly-liberated towns and tried to set up the newspapers, the civil government, and occasionally even the water supply. He thinks that he must have talked with over a thousand young members of the Resistance in a four-month period as he took his own notes on these underground maquisards. "Much of my work was done in bars...