Word: vias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concern over oil remained. The Middle East had been shipping 2,000,000 bbls. daily to Western Europe, 1,200,000 by tanker through the Suez Canal, the other 800,000 bbls. via pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, where tankers picked it up. Another 300,000 bbls. daily had been going from the Mideast...
...patience at an end, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. marched into a Topeka, Kans. courtroom last week and got a temporary injunction to stop an old trick that was costing it money. The trick is the uncompleted long-distance call, by which subscribers get their message across via a prearranged code and hang up without paying a dime. Like Illinois Bell Telephone Co., which estimated its losses at $400,000 annually (TIME, April 16), Southwestern Bell was losing heavily...
...little that the man of destiny would probably have remained a corporal. McKirdy is on occasion fiery and fierce, and is at his best when he shouts. His physical presence is a skillful representation of Napoleon, especially when he turns his back on the audience and acts only via a clenched fist...
Leading candidate for full back is Englishman John Alden, first Divinity School rugger in some time. Freshman fly half Don Shojai has come to the team from Persia via Hertfordshire...
...Actually the letter came to President Eliot via the Boston press, which handled the matter with its traditional delicacy...