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Long Haul. The pipeline, which brings Aramco's oil closer to Western European markets, saves a fleet of 65 tankers by eliminating the ten-day, 3,500-mile haul around the Arabian Peninsula (see map). For its builder, Burt E. Hull, 66, a bluff, weatherbeaten Texan, who has been building pipelines for 40 years, it was the biggest job since he built the wartime Big and Little Inch pipelines. As president of Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co., Hull now bosses the Arabian line for the four giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard...
Last week, while clearing the waters off the east Korean shore, the Magpie's wooden hull bumped a floating mine. The explosion sent her to the bottom, with 21 of her crew, including her commander Lieut, (j.g.) Warren Roy Person; only twelve survivors were picked...
...leisure time outdoors. He took great pleasure in mowing his lawn, spent many a Sunday afternoon in a rented rowboat fishing the Potomac. Aside from an occasional game of tennis with his wife, his only active sport was croquet, also a favorite game of former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who had so stubbornly ignored the claims of Rhee's government. One afternoon in 1943 Rhee interrupted a croquet game with some friends to tune in a broadcast of the Cairo Conference communique. He listened quietly to the communique, in which a promise that "Korea shall become free...
Accordingly, three men have taken over for Chollet and among them have succeeded in taking up the slack. Lyndon Hull has been starting at offensive left-half and will probably open today's game. He is being pressed for the starting assignment, however, by Sophomore Bob Engel who scored three times against Lafayette. Reginald Marchant, a junior, has been operating as the Ithacans' safety...
...Litzeiman, you Schuh had a Hull of a day," murmured the Peiping Prophet...