Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encouraging to find our finest periodicals following the lead of our theological classrooms in exploding the "Luther to Hitler blind obedience" myth. Any resemblance between the "Christian Prince" of Luther's day and the Hitler or Malenkov of our own is purely demonic-Communist East-zone propaganda (like its Nazi prototypes) notwithstanding...
...information libraries. (Later they announced that the libraries contained such magazines as the Nation and the New Republic* works by such authors as Agnes Smedley, Dashiell Hammett, Anna Louise Strong.) Then the pair flew off to Berlin for a quick look at the Soviet cultural center in the Russian zone. There wasn't time to inspect Berlin's American library, but in a refugee camp Cohn asked a recent trans-Curtain arrival if he knew who Senator McCarthy was. "Oh yes," the refugee replied brightly. "That is the general in Japan...
Referring to present educational conditions, Legge remarked, "Forty-three percent of those studying in the West are from the Soviet zone. They can never go back. If they did, they would be arrested immediately for capitalistic tendencies...
...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 pop, plus a royalty of 34? a barrel, the highest ever offered up to then. Many had chuckled ever...
...corporate rule, took Old Friend Davies' offer. English-born MacPherson first got to know the Middle East when he served in General Allenby's Palestine army in World War I. Meanwhile Pacific Western Oil's* J. Paul Getty bought up the other half of the Neutral Zone's concession from King Ibn Saud for $10.5 million. Since the halves are indivisible (i.e., each alike share in any oil found anywhere in the zone). Davies and Getty pooled their operations, jointly paid for MacPherson's drilling...