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...largest U.S. investment bankers, Manhattan's Dillon, Read & Co. and Glore, Forgan, have agreed to help raise 70% of the cost from big insurance lenders, the rest in equity capital. Ryan, who is planning to deliver gasoline from Beaumont to Newark for a cost of 29? per barrel v. an average of 38? by tanker, expects no trouble in lining up customers from the 50-odd U.S. oil companies with refineries in the Beaumont-Shreveport, La. area...
...napkins. The play was considered indifferent Shaw and dull theater until Kate turned it into a personal triumph. The critics drowned in their own superlatives: "A blockbusting performance''-"A human hurricane"-"Conquest by storm"-"One feels as excited as the man who went over Niagara in a barrel...
...back up the charge, Attorney General James P. McGranery last week slapped a suit on Jersey Standard, Socony-Vacuum, The Texas Co., Standard of California and six subsidiaries, seeking recovery of $67 million in alleged overcharges. His claim: they sold Middle East oil to ECA at $1.75 a barrel overseas, when they were billing their own sales to the U.S. at $1.43. According to FTC's report, this was done under a complex "basing point" price system which added "phantom freight" to the price of the oil. Thus, a Middle East buyer, next door to the producing wells...
...drank orange juice at cocktail parties. He steered a sightseeing boat in the Harlem River at the invitation of its skipper. He inspected a 50-million-barrel-a-year oil refinery in New Jersey, was told that it handles 50 times more oil than his whole country produces, and was handed a chunk of hot synthetic rubber. He was flown from New York to Washington, was taken to the White House for lunch with the President. Among the guests were both Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Harry Vaughan. The King shook hands and smiled, impartially...
...rheumatism in my left leg. The truth is-and I frankly admit I'm 83 years old-the truth is that I have done more work in the last six months than in any six months of my life." Then he boasted of his accomplishments at the pork barrel, dwelling on the federal money and projects he has obtained for Tennessee (e.g., TVA, Oak Ridge, Great Smoky Mountains Park). He promised more: "I would like to stay in the Senate long enough to have a four-lane highway from Bristol to Memphis and three four-lane highways across...