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Word: duvall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mosser's opening card; he also announced a contract to sell 800 billion cu. ft. of gas to Coastal States Gas Producing Co. at 16? per thousand cu. ft. (with escalator clause), biggest such deal in years. Coastal will build a ten-inch pipeline from the field in Duval and Jim Wells counties to Associated's recycling (i.e., processing) plant 25 miles away near Corpus Christi, hopes to get Federal Power Commission approval in three months. Texas Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline Co. already has an option to buy the gas for the Chicago area. Over the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: Millions from a Trillion | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Down to $29.30. In his search, white-maned, gruff Harry Mosser, 65, has the advantage of knowing South Texas as if it were his own backyard. He was born in San Antonio, brought up in Alice, Duval County, worked in his father's bank in Alice, and cotton farmed after leaving the University of Texas. He began buying up oil leases in the '20s all over South

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: Millions from a Trillion | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...telephone dramas, Jean Cocteau's one-act, one-character play The Human Voice (1930) returned last week in a fine musical version by French Composer Francis (Dialogues of the Carmelites) Poulenc. Staged in Milan's La Piccola Scala, with shimmering Soprano Denise Duval as the distraught mistress, Poulenc's opera lifted the play again to the lyric tragedy that Cocteau intended: "The worst tragedy that can happen to us all-love and abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Telephone Opera | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Slim, attractive, fortyish Denise Duval, who once sang (fully clothed) at the Folies-Bergere, repeated the triumph she scored in the opera's debut early this month in Paris. Says Singer Duval: "This is a true role. I don't have to invent attitudes. It's happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Telephone Opera | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Maria Golovin closed after five performances, but it has already been recorded by RCA Victor, and NBC intends to produce it on television, which may provide a better setting for the work's small-screen passions. Golovin's best feature: its cast, including Franca Duval, Patricia Neway and the bass-baritone find of the year, 22-year-old Richard Cross, who left college (Iowa's Cornell) only 18 months ago, but sings Donato with power and conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blind, Burning & Bland | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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