Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four demonstrated considerable instrumental versatility. Mr. Brown, a virtuoso of long standing on the modern flute, also played several kinds of recorder. Mr. Fuller, a concert organist, here showed his skill on a rich-toned harpsichord built in 1955 by the local firm of Hubbard and Dowd. Miss Davidoff played both the 'cello and its quite different predecessor, the viola da gamba. Mr. Senturia, a first-rate oboist, also played on several sizes of recorder; and, in three pieces, he provided the chief novelty of the evening by performing on a krummhorn--a long obsolete, J-shaped woodwind with...
...hands of the federal or state governments or Indian tribal councils, and with leases going for as much as $4,308 an acre (v. $100 or so only two years ago), only the biggest companies can afford to gamble. They are there-in force. El Paso Natural Gas built a $750,000 division headquarters to operate the pipeline, has expanded it three times since 1952. This week or next, Shell Oil moves into a $500,000 headquarters, while Phillips Petroleum, Humble, Superior, Union, Carter, Gulf, Magnolia, Continental, Skelly and half a dozen other majors all have sizable operations...
...brought in in 1879. But geologists never thought there was enough to bother with-until the 19505. Then, hunting gas for the rapidly expanding industries of the Los Angeles area, El Paso Natural Gas moved in. Soon it hit a big gas pocket in the San Juan Basin, built a pipeline to Los Angeles. Within a few years it had lines out to 3,000 wells in a system so intricate that it looked like a page from Gray's Anatomy...
...combine of six companies (Standard of California, Gulf, Continental, Shell, Richfield and Superior) formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co., spent $50 million for a 16-in. line pumping 70,000 bbls. daily to Los Angeles. Now a second outfit, the Texas-New Mexico Pipe Line Co., has built another line, with 50,000 bbls. daily capacity, from Aneth field in Utah to Jal, New Mexico, where the oil goes into the Texas Gulf and Midwest markets...
...film also shows a Tarzan who has evolved in a wide arc from the original character of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels, first played on the screen by the late Elmo Lincoln in 1918. Compared to Elmo, who was built like a water tower and once -on the set-killed a lion that tried to rough him up, the Tarzans of mid-century are sissies. Tarzan's dialogue, over the years, has improved from a simple grunt to almost literate palaver...