Word: withdraws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gulf and Continental Oil. The worried giants hastily rechecked their geologic studies. Did Kerr-McGee, headed by Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr and Oilman Dean McGee, have some special information on the land? Not at all. In Washington last week, Kerr-McGee was desperately trying to withdraw its $15 million in bids and get back the $3,000,000 down payment it had made on the land. It was all a horrible mistake...
...China and who has since been accused of promoting Communism. Last year Judge Youngdahl dismissed four perjury indictments against Lattimore. Last week, with new indictments coming up for trial, U.S. Attorney Leo Rover looked Judge Youngdahl in the eye and dramatically intoned: "I ask you under the law ... to withdraw from the case...
...member of the Brooks House Association, who refused to be named, last night asserted that Hastie has been pressured by the University administration to withdraw his offers--at least until the arrival in Cambridge of the newly elected Chairman of the Board of Preachers, George A. Buttrick, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City...
Russia over territory and prerogatives and won (see below). Whether the Russians yielded to Chinese strength or merely found it expedient to appear to do so, the unblinking fact was on paper that Russia made all the concessions: it returned a military base and agreed to withdraw its troops, gave up economic privileges, and by handing over its share in joint companies tacitly abandoned-for now at least-its grab for the resources of the outer Chinese province of Sinkiang...
...China. In any event, the Russians had the use of a second ice-free port at Dairen, a handy 25 miles up the Liao Tung peninsula from Pert Arthur. But the agreements let Peking spread the impression that it had been able to force the Russians to withdraw...