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...look was enough to convince both oilmen and critics that Patron Standard had accomplished a worthy deed. Such notable artists as Peter Hurd, Joe Jones and Thomas Hart Benton had taken part, and they had worked hard to catch the industry's roaring youth and hard-muscled energy. In bright oils and deft watercolors, they pictured the bustling Louisiana refineries, the purposeful ranks of derricks marching across western plains, the clanging docks where oil tankers are unloaded. There were scenes of an oilfield set in the middle of a Venezuelan lake, of the eerie orange glow from burning natural...
...told a sergeant major. "If you shoot them, I will see to it that you yourself are shot when the Americans reach here." The authority in her words and manner was too much for the noncom. The gates were opened and the four walked out. "It was the bravest deed I ever saw," said one of the officers later...
...just about the same area two years ago, Russian fighters shot down a U.S. Navy Privateer, with a crew of ten. The men were never found. The Russians admitted that they had attacked the plane, rejected U.S. protests, and decorated the Soviet airmen who performed the deed...
Citation: "He has given his life to Christian missionary work . . . in 64 countries he has helped 15 million people learn their A B Cs in 239 languages and dialects. An evangelist of literacy. In method unique. In spirit naive. In Godliness practical. He has loved men . . . in deed and in truth...
...been hit. He disputed Truman's "shocking distortion of facts" up & down the line. Cried Randall: Truman has "transgressed his oath of office ... abused the power which is temporarily his ... seized the private property of one million people without the slightest shadow of legal right . . . This evil deed, without precedent in American history, discharges a political debt to the C.I.O. . . Phil Murray now gives Harry Truman a receipt marked 'paid in full...