Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used an odd assortment of music to provide transition between scenes. While it helps to keep the intervals short, much is heavy and inappropriate, and one wonders whether it is needed at all. Costumes are quite suitable, and the settings and lighting by George Spelvin are adequate if necessarily crude because of the show's limited budget...
...says Sinclair Oil Corp. President P. C. Spencer. Though producers have held prices fairly stable for almost three years, the cost of finding oil and the cost of refining it are rising so fast that the industry wants a flat 20% hike in the price of crude oil, with commensurate price boosts for all refined products...
...during a few seconds--while skipping blithely around the stage--does her characterization crack. Andre Gregory, as her seducer, is less successful, partially because he is smooth and sneaky at the beginning, instead of developing from pain (at the loss of his gin) to suspicion. Colgate Salsbury plays the crude, calculating husband with his usual energy, and a great deal of success. Although his Southern accent fluctuates enough to consider forgetting it entirely, rapid delivery expresses jarringly the hard personality which inhibits and crushes his wife. Like Miss Linch, Salsbury is expert at varying his pace; when serious...
...Grey Flannel Suit is a long movie and one worth seeing. Its subject, the great Madison Avenue of high-pressure public relations, is tricky and almost impossible to describe without loading the dice. Passing up most of the opportunities for cute, crude humor, the movie makes a skillful attempt to give a straight treatment to Madison Avenue and its progeny...
BIGGEST OIL REFINERY in Germany will be built near Cologne by Standard Oil of New Jersey. To be ready by 1959 at a cost of $119 million, refinery will have an initial capacity of 3,000,000 tons of crude oil annually, will build up to 5,000,000 tons by 1961, some 50% of West Germany's total current capacity. Project also involves six 36,000-ton tankers, plus a 150-to 200-mile pipeline from North Sea ports to Cologne...