Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latecomer. On the one side is the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, a Midwestern giant which has belatedly joined the rush for overseas reserves and is ready to pay to get in on the comparatively few good areas still unallocated in the Middle East. For an offshore Iranian concession earlier this year, Indiana Standard paid a $25 million cash bonus, promised to spend $82 million in twelve years developing the area, and by accepting the state oil agency as equal operating partner entitled to half of future profits, in effect gave the Iranians a 75-25 share of total profits...
...front on a white charger. In the midst of the Lebanese crisis last August, President Eisenhower called on the U.N. to set up a "standby peace force." But last week U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cautiously rejected the whole idea of a permanent U.N. army, ready to rush off anywhere and any time. The kind of force "generally envisaged," said he, "would be without great practical value," and expensive to boot...
...started out, only 100,000 reached Dawson. Only 4.000 became wealthy. But while the rush was on, life in the Far North was fabulous. Miners thought nothing of $10.000 barroom sprees. One man collected the sawdust from a saloon floor and panned $278 from it in two hours. Dance-hall girls charged the miners $1 for one minute of dancing. and two miners actually had valets in their log huts. Fine dog teams, says Author Berton, were the Cadillacs of the time. "Nigger Jim" had one that was worth $2,500, and his sled had a built-in bar from...
Writers about the gold rush, one of history's maddest mass movements, have been almost as numerous as prospectors in the Klondike. But perhaps no one has told the story with the same fullness and readable authority as Canadian Journalist Pierre Berton in The Klondike Fever. Author Berton's credentials are convincing. His father staked a claim on Quigley Gulch in 1898, and while it produced only gravel, he stayed on and lived in fabled Dawson City for 40 years. Author Berton himself lived there until he was twelve, admits that it still "haunts my dreams...
Fullback James Nelson spearheaded the offense for the home forces, while tackle Jack Foker and center Roger Hall-owell were towers of defensive strength. The defense, once it began to rush the passer effectively, completely halted the Jumbos' advances...