Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land of crocodiles and kangaroos, of torrential, 60-in. rain fall half the year and bone-dry drought the rest. Last week Humpty Doo held promise of living up to its name. After three years of study, a group of U.S. businessmen headed by Los Angeles Industrialist Allen Chase had formed Territory Rice Ltd., planned to spend at least $90 million turning the Outback into one of the world's biggest rice-producing areas. Their goal: production of 625,000 tons of rice annually, nearly one-half of 1% of the total world supply...
Dams & Markets. Chase and Territory Rice signed a 30-year deal with the Australian government to develop 500,000 acres of the Outback's alluvial plains into a settled and prosperous farming area. Within five years, the company must choose its acreage, within another ten years prepare the land, build a complex of dams, irrigation ditches, etc., and bring in the first crops. After that, it must sell the developed land to settlers, who will farm it while Territory Rice acts as agent for the rice crop, mills and ships it to markets. With only a token...
...pennant chase continued, an old clutch-hitter with a reputation for breaking up tight ball games and a well-known affection for Harriman was asked what he thought of the current crop. Said Harry Truman in Southampton just before heading home from his European tour: he didn't care to comment just now. But then, with Casey Stengel shrewdness, he added: "I'll have plenty to say later...
...Great Locomotive Chase (Buena Vista). Walt Disney has intelligently made a Technicolor, CinemaScope film out of one of the best adventure stories of the Civil War. In the spring of 1862, a Union spy named James J. Andrews and a score of volunteer infantrymen from Ohio penetrated nearly 200 miles behind the Confederate lines in Tennessee, seized a railway train outside Marietta, Ga. and raced north intending to destroy track and railway bridges as they fled. Their object: to prevent Southern reinforcements from being sent from Atlanta while Union General Mitchel made a surprise attack on Chattanooga...
...meat of the film, however, is the chase. Disney dug up some fine period rolling stock and set it racing madly along a stretch of the antiquated Tallulah Falls Railroad in northern Georgia. The epic sight of the bright-colored, majestic eight-wheelers, belching smoke and spinning their drivers, is enough to make moviegoers thoroughly dissatisfied with the pallid diesel streamliners of today...