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Again and again the phone rang. Getty answered with a clear but tentative voice -as if he expected the call to bring him some annoyance. He spoke with a Swedish importer who wanted 20,000 tons of fuel oil a month from Getty's Middle East fields. He turned down an invitation to lunch. He took a call from a shipbuilder in Tokyo about details of a new Getty supertanker. Turning to a pile of cables, he read a report on his new, 18-in. Mideast pipeline, fired off an answer to a Turkish importer's request...
...fourth-quarter drop in earnings to $1.56 per share from $1.83 the year before. Republic Steel's net fell in the last quarter to 77? a share from $2.22 a year earlier, though the company turned its best earnings year since 1955. On the other hand, Bethlehem Steel rang up record yearly earnings, partly on the strength of an increase in fourth-quarter earnings over the third quarter (but below a year before), and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. also managed to raise its fourth-quarter earnings...
...story goes that a young Eastern lawyer complained to an old Texas judge about the Texas way with crime. "I don't understand Texas justice," said the lawyer. "You will suspend sentence of a convicted murderer, but you wall hang a horse thief." The old judge rang a spittoon with a stream of tobacco juice. "Sonny," he replied, "I reckon that's 'cause we got men that need killin' but we ain't got no hosses that need stealin...
...always polite to his neighbors. Félicie was a short, plump, sad-eyed widow with bobbed greying hair. Eleven months ago she disappeared. Clé explained, "Félicie has gone to Italy. Life is much easier there. I will soon join her." But to occasional callers who rang the bell and asked for her, Charles Clément was more truthful: "Madame cannot be disturbed. She is in the bathtub...
Another left to the body by Akins buckled DeMarco forward to his knees and he was wobbling as the bell rang...