Word: hull
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Stooped, fierce-eyed old Cordell Hull said that he felt exactly the same about the "situation today" as he did when he dressed down Japanese peace emissaries after the attack at Pearl Harbor...
...Golden State (by Samuel Spewack; produced by Bella Spewack) is a hack comedy that sinks even that bounciest and most cork-brained of comediennes, Josephine Hull. Playwright Spewack sets out to kid California's well-known ambition to be El Dorado when, it grows up. Actress Hull plays a hopeful landlady who, through a Spanish ancestor, lays property claims to all of Beverly Hills. Ernest Truex plays a hopeful prospector who thinks he discovers gold in Miss Hull's back yard and makes frenzied forty-niners of the other roomers...
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...
...pipe-from more than 5,000 U.S. suppliers. On a Persian Gulf sandspit, he built a port. Across the desert he threaded 930 miles of highway. He operated 1,500 cars and trucks, built airfields, ran Tapline's own private airline and radio communication system. To get water, Hull's men dug 40 producing wells which now supply water to 100,000 Bedouin tribesmen, 150,000 camels and 300,000 sheep and goats. At the pipeline's six lonely pumping stations, he is building complete towns with movie theaters, mosques and athletic facilities...
...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...