Word: houston
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...proposed wedding would marry two Texas oil and gas properties with big potentials. Tennessee Production already has interests in 509 producing wells on 57,000 acres, and holds 249,000 additional unproved acres. American Republics is owner (with Houston Oil) of 800,000 Texas acres which have already yielded rich finds of oil, though development has hardly been started. Moreover, American Republics' land is also believed to have big gas reserves. Thus the deal would give Symonds an assured source of gas for Tennessee's pipelines, and assure him Rieber's master hand in operating...
Next stops for the show, after a month in Boston: Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, B.C., Akron, Houston, Coral Gables, Fla., Washington...
...Houston listeners, hearing such recorded works as Parsifal, Tannhdüser, St. Matthew Passion, all complete, were enthusiastic, wrote more than 50 letters a day praising the program. The four sponsors were equally pleased: one of them got enough new business in six weeks to pay for his investment three times over. The program's first three trial months have been so successful that this week it is being expanded to twelve hours...
...Hoosier-born Princeton man, Barbe conducted at Milan's La Scala when he was 19; after he came home from World War II he conducted the Portland (Ore.) Symphony for three years. Today 44-year-old Barbe broadcasts his programs from a $40,000 studio built into his Houston home. Because he feels that "our audience is at least as intelligent as we are," he treats advertisers as they have rarely been treated before: he puts on their commercials only when he sees fit, edits and cuts them. Barbe is busy planning an elaborate Easter week program including Marcel...
...Tribune gave its readers only a small test sample of the changes Farrar prescribed, but the Call-Bulletin put on its new dress all at once, just as the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Portland Oregon Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Houston Post and scores of others had done after Typographer Farrar redesigned them. Farrar, whose clients often call him "the Deacon" because of his evangelical zeal for tidy typography (i.e., his own), bases all his prizewinning designs on a simple theory: "There are more eyes among readers than intellects...