Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gravimeter and 15 seismographic crews, 36 wildcat rigs. But so far he has not found a single economically operable well outside of Bahia, despite the fact that Brazil has some 1,350,000 sq. mi. of potential sedimentary deposits. The big snags are a mile of solid rock beneath the surface in potential oil lands and, above the surface, miles of red tape...
There is a tale making the slow rounds about the Art of Henry James. James, it goes, constructed a great Gothic Cathedral of his craft. Beneath the arches and between the pews our heels clatter and our voices echo. But upon arriving at the altar (so says the story) we discover a dead...
Kilty is handsomely assisted by William Roberts' monumental two-story unit set, representing a corner of Venice, complete with tessellated pavement and an animal-head fountain spouting water. The wall beneath inverted-V stairways folds out to transplant us to Portia's greenery-bedecked residence at Belmont. Gilbert Helmsley, Jr. has designed some fine lighting...
...indeed had, as autos, appliances and many other consumer hard goods turned down. Last week, in a report that was as heartening as it was authoritative, the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, often called upon to test consumer attitudes for the Federal Reserve Board, reported that beneath the consumer's somewhat hesitant exterior still beats a buying heart of gold...
...problem of what to do if oil supplies from the Middle East are cut off. Though Baghdad Radio announced that the new regime will honor existing agreements with Western oil companies, and oil continued to flow (see FOREIGN NEWS), few oilmen were willing to relax. From beneath the burning deserts of the Middle East flow more than 4,000,000 bbl. of oil a day, a quarter of the free world's production. About 90% of the oil is exported, and 58% goes to Western Europe. Western oil companies have more than $3 billion in plant and equipment invested...