Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within minutes of the first blast, grim-faced Gene Smith was in action, ordering all available police to duty, posting guards at homes of city officials and school board members, enlisting the aid of the Little Rock FBI office in a sleepless, round-the-clock hunt for the dynamiters. In three days he had rounded up five suspects: Building Supply Dealer E. A. Lauderdale Sr., 48, twice-defeated candidate for the City Manager Board and a leader of the segregationist Capital Citizens Council; Truck Driver J. D. Sims, 35, who admitted to an Arkansas Gazette reporter that he had placed...
Morgan's Bark. Clark, born on Staten Island, got into money finding at 16, when he persuaded a Brooklyn builder to give him an exclusive contract to obtain 5% mortgaging on 200 houses. With his $25,000 fee, he opened an office to hunt up more business. Learning that J. P. Morgan was paying 6% on some mortgaged loft buildings in lower Manhattan, Clark, 17, wrote Morgan that he could save him money by refinancing, was invited to Morgan's office. When he arrived, Morgan barked: "What s.o.b. sent for you?'' Replied Clark...
Folly's Power. Pharaoh's court inevitably degenerates; one of his weak, precocious daughters dies, and his beautiful sister-bride Nefertiti becomes half-blind with trachoma. By the gentle glowing phosphorescence of decay, Stacton's characters search for some meaning to life. Such a unicorn hunt cannot succeed, of course, but it has its impressive moments -Stacton's people talk very well. They may, in fact, talk a bit too well; after a time the author's fondness for epigrams becomes almost as irritating as Aldous Huxley's old weakness for brandishing his scientific...
Mosser's find is one of the biggest in a widespread treasure hunt that is turning many an oilman into a gasman. Even after World War II, oilmen were burning off natural gas as a waste that came up with the oil. Now, so many cities are switching to natural gas-and oil is in such surplus-that the market has burgeoned, put a premium on gas discoveries. Mosser now has more than 18 oil and gas rigs drilling, brought in more than a dozen wells. He has two other promising fields that may well yield another trillion cubic...
...outset. Mr. Bartley (Macdonald Carey) has the family dog "put away" without so much as consulting young Arthur. The inordinate attention lavished by Mrs. Bartley (Marsha Hunt) on her daughter's approaching marriage, plus the prosaic preoccupations of these prosaic parents, drives young Arthur to a basement escape with his contemporaries, where furtive beers foam up into braggadocio, cigarettes mingle with clumsy sex experiments, and draw poker alternates with the raw pathos that gives the picture its fleeting moments of real feeling. It is only in the quiet, anxious scenes of awakening love that Director-Co-Writer Philip Dunne...