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Shell had played its strike carefully, but oilmen got a hint that something was in the wind even before the announcement. When the company started drilling last month 60 miles southwest of Ely, anyone could wander around and look to his heart's content. But after ten days of drilling, Shell suddenly changed its mind. It put up a sign warning away visitors and built a fence around the operation. But by the time the well was brought in, at 6,433 ft, shrewd Nevadans were already trickling into Reno's land office, snapping...
...reprinted paragraph below was the way TIME Writer Osborn Elliott began the Business essay in the Jan. 25 issue of TIME. After it appeared, TIME'S Washington correspondent George B. Bookman decided to check with Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to see if any auto salesman had taken the hint. This is what Bookman reported...
...since 1945 there has ben a sudden shift in I.Q. In Stalag 17 we see a hint when one character warns "Remember, just because the krauts are dumb, that doesn't mean they're stupid." And in The Devil Makes Three several Germans--those helping Gene Kelly--seem almost smart...
...Whispers passed between Molotov and his advisers. Had there been just a hint of a Western walkout? Into that moment of uncertainty darted Bidault with a carefully drafted French proposal for keeping disarmament talks within the U.N., and a further suggestion that both his own and Molotov's arms proposals be put off for private discussion later. This time Molotov surprised the others. "I do not consider it advantageous to draw out discussions," said one of diplomacy's mas ter procrastinators...
...Living Symbols." The U.N. liberation schedule ran smoothly, with no hint of interference from the Communists. But on the second morning, a small boat laden with 50 U.S. marines slammed into an LST and sank. Twenty-eight marines were drowned, or died from exposure...