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...country big, but so are the achievements and plans of the people. And the people want you to see what they have done, from the biggest operator down to the gyppologger or the settler who is living in a tent and farming 160 irrigated acres in the Columbia Basin. And in seeing some of this, you get the gnawing feeling that you are never going to catch up with the immensity of the development out here." Cordially yours...
...four hiked about 40 miles up the ice slopes of Ruth Glacier. At 5,500 ft. up the Great Ruth Basin, supplies were air-dropped by Pilot Wood's wife Ginny, flying a light plane with a girl friend beside her. The four men packed 30 days' supplies on their backs, but, to save ten pounds in weight, no radio. At 10,000 ft. they ran into an ice wall, but cut hand and foot holds to climb...
...musical Manhattan cellar called Basin Street one night last week, a thin-haired bandleader used an unorthodox method to get his crew going on a fast number. Dropping into a distance-runner's stance, he stamped out four beats and shouted a hoarse, rapid-fire "Bow! Bow!" On the next beat the 15-man outfit exploded into a shrieking blast that turned out to be a wild-eyed, half-humorous version of Lover, Come Back to Me. To start quieter numbers, such as Pres. Conference, the bandleader preferred to count out the beat or snap his fingers...
AMERADA brought in a well near Williston, N.D., which oilmen believe has tapped a new oilfield in the rich Williston Basin...
...imports some 50,000 bbls. of oil daily (90% of consumption), may soon have its first sizable producing oilfield. A group of U.S. oilmen and Cuban promoters have brought in the country's biggest find, with a well pumping 250 bbls. of good-quality oil in the Jatibonico Basin, about 215 miles southeast of Havana...