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...jowled man named George F. Vasen drilled deeper and deeper until he reached 20,450 ft., the second deepest well through the crust on record.* Although there were no other wells near Wiggins, Wildcatter Vasen insisted that there was an immense "Atlantic Ocean of oil" below the town, a limitless black pool stretching 1,000 miles from the Gulf to Pennsylvania...
...nation has just completed the most prosperous year in its history. The damaging effect of inflation ... has been brought under control. The cost of our Government has been reduced, and its work proceeds with some 183,000 fewer employees; thus the discouraging trend of modern governments toward their own limitless expansion has been in our case reversed. The cost of armaments becomes less oppressive as we near our defense goals; yet we are militarily stronger every...
...Curtiss-Wright Corporation, one of America's largest manufacturers of airplane equipment, sums up the opportunities for a young engineer in its 1953 brochure: "For the aeronautical research worker and engineer, there is an evergrowing challenge to contribute to the progress of a field firmly established, yet limitless in potentialities. Working daily at the threshhold of the unknown will bring the engineer into many closely related fields. An aircraft increase in size and speed, the role of the engineer and research worker becomes even more important...
...window. At this point the lights dim, and a wise man (Robert Simon) appears. "Let us reverse this fate and make things turn back," he says. The husband jumps back in the window, and the action shifts into reverse, ending as it began. Obviously, the situation has almost limitless potentialities, most of which were realized in the performance. In the exposition, for instance, the wife at one point pours some coffee and drinks it. In the recapitulation, she drinks it again, then nochalantly pours it back into the coffee pot. The singers were on key, articulate, and appropriately hammy...
...current fare offered the American televiewer testifies to the low opinion the ad man holds of the nation's mind. But this view is not held by educators, who unanimously feel that television offers an educational medium with seemingly limitless potentialities. No sponsors will buy "educational" TV; the networks must give it away, and in giving they lose valuable profits. Since commercial stations are unwilling to take the risks, the solution is non-commercial television with the avowed purpose of airing only material with the highest quality...