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March 18, 1961

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THE SUPER-AMERICAN STATE II-OIL.

John Bainbridge

PROFILE of Texas and its oil industry. Most Texas million aires are in oil. The industry is young, inventive, brash, enterprising, powerful, well …

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Other People's Houses; The Children's Transport

In December, 1938, at the age of ten, the writer went on the first transport that the Vienna Jewish Committee had organized to rescue Jewish children from …

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