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Every four years, the nation develops a fetish for meetings. Smoke belches forth from numerous rooms, buttons sprout like the artificial green carnations of March 17, and purveyors of the Teleprompter wax fat. This year, meeting-goers spat out their melange of denunciations in greater quantity, greater volume, and into a greater number of ears than ever before...
Every four years, the nation develops a fetish for meetings. Smoke belches forth from numerous rooms, buttons sprout like the artificial green carnations of March 17, and purveyors of the Teleprompter wax fat. This year, meeting-goers spat out their melange of denunciations in greater quantity, greater volume, and into a greater number of ears than ever before...
peer closely at his phiz, So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is. They tell you he's a mummy...
...there was light. After half-an-hour's scribbling, the ink was dry; so were the ministers. Arm in arm they marched out of the chamber to sample the Quai d'Orsay's champagne. On the E-shaped table, done up in red tape and sealing wax, they left the hopeful blueprints for a new Europe...
...Salt Lake's determined Wildcatter J. L. (Mike) Dougan kept on trying, despite a heartbreaking series of dry holes. Finally, after two years, he brought in Utah's first commercial well. But that wasn't the end of his heartbreak. The oil is so full of wax that it is like Vaseline. But experts found that heating the well's pipes for its last 1,200 ft. would make the oil flow. Now the major oil companies have leases in the basin, have proved up four producing fields (Ashley Valley, Red Wash, Roosevelt Pool, Duchesne...