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...producing countries, a spring flood of crude can be devastating. The last one, in 1986, sent prices plunging below $10 a bbl. This year another glut is surging forth, depressing prices of Persian Gulf crude from $18 a bbl. in December to about $13 currently. The causes: a warm winter in Europe and an increase in production among non-OPEC countries, ranging from Angola to Yemen...
...them worked all day -- Siegel writing and Shuster drawing -- until they had finished no fewer than twelve newspaper strips. Then they set forth to sell their new hero to the waiting world, which proved utterly indifferent. "A rather immature piece of work," said United Feature. "Crude and hurried," said Esquire Features. Even at Detective Comics, which finally bought the feature after much argument and delay to help launch Action Comics four years later, Publisher Harry Donenfeld looked at the first cover, of Superman lifting a car over his head (a treasure that now can fetch $35,000 from collectors...
Although Superman's adventures were a fairly crude story, fairly crudely illustrated, their overnight success not only earned millions but also created shoals of imitators, such as Batman, Captain Marvel, Hawkman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman. "Oddly enough," says Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, "the Depression enlivened the American dream that anyone could make it, and that's what Superman did. I loved the fantasy of this guy who had all this strength. While Superman went around beating up crooks, in my dreams I was beating up authority figures...
When the supertanker Amoco Cadiz foundered in 1978, spewing 68 million gal. of crude oil over the beaches of Brittany, it created the worst petroleum spill ever to hit land. It also launched one of the world's stickiest legal battles. The French government and a host of other plaintiffs claimed $1.6 billion in damages...
Sixty years after crude signals began emerging from America's first regularly transmitting station, in Schenectady, N.Y., TV has stopped to take its longest, most comprehensive look at itself. Television, a series of eight hour-long documentaries exploring the medium's history, originated as a 13- part program on Britain's Granada Television. It has been adapted and Americanized under the aegis of two PBS stations, Los Angeles' KCET and New York City's WNET. Roughly two-thirds of the material in the U.S. version is new, including clips, interviews with key figures from TV's past and narration...