Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news in two countries last week. Argentina was on the verge of signing a pattern-setting exploration and development contract with Standard Oil Co. of California when its politicians abruptly balked, forced a cautious re-examination of the whole deal. Guatemala laid down a come-and-get-it oil code that set hardboiled but workable terms by which it is willing to let foreign oil companies find and pump...
Workable But Not Liberal. Guatemala's new code, by contrast, gave every promise that the pumps will be clanking soon. It, too, adopted the 50-50 formula and other major provisions in the world pattern. Three big oil companies-California Standard, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), and Conorada Petroleum Corp. (a combine formed by the Continental, Ohio and Amerada oil companies)-seemed ready to sign...
...dirty words" for his pains. Then Perls turned to the district attorney's office, rounded up such experts as John Rewald and Frederick Wight to testify at Goldenberg's trial. Last week Dealer Perls won his point. Found guilty of violating California's business and professional code, Dealer Goldenberg faces up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. It was the first conviction of an art-fake peddler in U.S. legal history...
From the Bonn and Paris embassies, the U.S. delegation will borrow about 100 hands: stenographers and switchboard operators, code clerks and receptionists, chauffeurs and cooks. One unlisted member of the U.S. delegation will be White House Stenographer Jack Romagna, one of the fastest shorthand-writers in the world, who took notes outside F.D.R.'s bedroom during the frantic U.S. Cabinet meeting in the first crowded hours after Pearl Harbor...
...well aware, in hindsight, that U.S. code crackers found out Japan's plans in advance. Fuchida and his coauthor, another officer who survived the disaster, quote U.S. Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison's verdict that Midway was "a victory of intelligence." They have practically nothing good to say for their leaders' performance. They find the Imperial Navy's intelligence "ineffective." its plan "faulty," its technology backward (only the U.S. had radar at Midway), its security procedures far slacker than before the Pearl Harbor attack. In the first week of June 1942, they say, all Japanese suffered...