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...then Deputy Director Helms to account for all the planes in Doole's regime, a staffer spent three months on the project before confessing that he could never be more than 90% certain. The problem, explained the exasperated staffer, was that Doole was forever leasing planes between his shell corporations and changing their markings and tail numbers...
...there is more than enough oil available now, the leases under discussion would not come into production until the late 1990s. And while current bottom-of-the-barrel prices would make offshore recovery too expensive, oil companies must plan ahead for different market conditions. Says Lloyd Otteman, president of Shell California Production: "We're looking at eight to 15 years between lease sale and production. We can't find it and get it out any faster. The world picture has changed dramatically in the past ten years, and goodness knows what's ahead...
...with members of the Brownshirts, "and by mere inference my name could have been entered on a list of SA members." Shortly after war broke out on Sept. 1, 1939, Waldheim was drafted into a cavalry unit. In December 1941 he was seriously wounded on the Eastern Front by shell splinters and was transferred to Vienna...
...some time. Undoubtedly, there are people out there who were switched as children. Their biggest gamble--playing Rawlsian roulette and ending up with an arbitrary allotment of wealth and family love--could really have nothing at all to do with their heredity or genetic endowment, but just a hospital shell game...
...Marin, one of the wealthiest in the nation. Local officials, however, were quick to point out that pockets of deserving poverty did exist amid Marin's hot-tubbed sybaritism. But then the trust's sole asset, a 7% stake in the obscure Belridge Oil Co., was gobbled up by Shell Oil Co. for a whopping $260 million, and even some Marinites began to wonder whether they needed that much charity...