Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called the Creole Syndicate, which had concessions on an expanse of shallow water in Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela, covering a tremendous oil reservoir. Jersey bought control of the syndicate, combined it with other Venezuelan holdings into Creole Petroleum Corp., punched holes into Lake Maracaibo's bottom from specially developed drilling barges. Now there are 2,000 lake wells, each a little steel-and-concrete island separated by a strip of water, forming one of the world's great industrial spectacles...
Only the news that the girls has been discovered (at the bottom of a well) saves the town from mass riot. This is an implausible touch, but in introduces what might almost be another story--a dramatic rescue operation based on the Kathy Fiscus tragedy. Excellent night photography highlights these scenes as Negroes and whites work together in the glare of automobile headlights to tunnel through to the girl. This brings a fast moving climax to a picture that's good entertainment, and something to think about...
...doing this much longer," he observed. "In a week or two they will go to the bottom of the pool to hibernate. Just as well, perhaps. I might be too busy." Whether he will be busy as Prime Minister or again as leader...
Pentagon officials revealed yesterday that the armed forces will be enlarged by 500,000 men in the near future. The move will force local draft boards to "scrape the bottom of the manpower barrel." This increase will raise the total to 4 million from the present goal...
Duveen's sees one big problem ahead: the scarcity of old masters. "You can't keep draining Europe forever," says President Fowles. "Finally you get to the bottom of the barrel." But Duveen's barrel is still well padded. For sale last week : five Rembrandts, four Botticellis, six Bellinis, three Titians, three Gainsboroughs, two Giorgiones, one Fra Angelico, one Castagno and 600 other lesser English, Dutch, French and Italian old lights...