Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...song was written by Walt Disney's Tunesmith Oliver Wallace for a picture originally entitled Donald Duck in Nutzi-land, skyrocketed so fast that Disney decided to change the title of the picture to that of the song. Also rocketing to fame on the song's beer-barrel phrases was a hitherto obscure drummer named Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones. Jones, whose band, The City Slickers, first recorded Der Fuehrer's Face, found himself suddenly thrust up among the top U.S. bandleaders. Until then "Spike" had been modestly playing what he calls "society music" (jazzed up Chopin...
...Army & Navy wanted to take over the colleges lock, stock & barrel.* They proposed to pick the students and prescribe their courses, eliminate everything from the curriculum but technical and essential professional studies...
Oldtime oil geologist Arville Irving Levorsen said the U.S. had a 20 billion barrel oil reserve-enough to last 14 years at the current consumption rate. But even in an extreme emergency the U.S. could not get more than one-fifth this oil in the next few years. (The U.S. consumed over 1.2 billion barrels of oil for 1939's peaceable purposes.) Four other oilmen backed him up, declared a 25 to 50? a barrel rise over the present average $1.15 level would be necessary to revive wildcatting...
Then three centuries of indifferent Harvard men were tossed about in their graves as a mammoth football rally showed the "Hanover hoodlumns" that college spirit can come without "a barrel of New England...
...last week Berkeley Bunker came up with some news that really put B.M. into the big time. He said he had heard "reliably" that huge Anaconda Copper Co. was buying B.M. "lock, stock and barrel" for $75,000,000, that its former owners were getting $1,000,000 from Defense Plants Corp. on the deal, although the Government's bill for building the plant would now run over $100,000,000 rather than $70,000,000. Even so, said Senator Bunker darkly, "the Government can consider itself lucky to get out of this thing...