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...raised the $30 million for the gamble. With nine other independent producers, Davies formed Aminoil in 1947 to give independents, as well as majors, a Middle East concession. Gulf and Anglo-Iranian had sewed up Kuwait; Aramco (jointly owned by Standard of California, Texas, Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum) had a grip on Saudi Arabia. But nobody had the "no man's land" between-the Neutral Zone jointly run by the Sheiks of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Davies leased the Sheik of Kuwait's half interest for $7.2 million, a price that made oilmen's eyes...
...outskirts of Boston and every large city a new retailing business is growing. It is still the land of Hopalong Cassidy suits, vacuum cleaners, and nylon stockings. It is also the land of vast parking places, long, low buildings and customer convenience...
...Vacuum. Three days after Gottwald's death, no successor had been announced. Moscow, well aware of the dangerous power vacuum, sent a delegation to Prague headed by Marshal Bulganin-ostensibly to attend Gottwald's funeral. Outside the Iron Curtain, there was speculation that Czechoslovakia might abolish the office of President; even so, somebody had to be the country's boss. The chief aspirants were Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky, 69, who is old for the job and perhaps not aggressive enough; Defense Minister Alexei Cepicka, 43, who rose to favor by marrying Gottwald's daughter...
...Says Voegelin: "If a war has a purpose at all, it is the restoration of a balance of forces and not the aggravation of disturbance; it is the reduction of the unbalancing excess of force, not the destruction of force to the point of creating a new unbalancing power vacuum. Instead, the [Western] Gnostic politicians have put the Soviet army on the Elbe, surrendered China to the Communists, at the same time demilitarized Germany and Japan, and in addition demobilized...
They heard Smith moving his furniture, tapping the floor, stomping about, vacuum cleaning, banging the garbage pail, shoveling coal at all hours of the day & night, digging after dark in a garden by the Masons' windows. As soon as he went out, his telephone began ringing. Then they began hearing hit, new clocks-a half hourly loud chimer and an especially vigorous cuckoo clock-right above their bedroom. The Masons moved their bed into the living room, a maneuver that did not escape Smith's stethoscope. The clocks moved into the room directly above. Once during a three...