Word: magnolia
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...Southern capital, but often it seems more like a long afternoon spent in a botanical garden. From the very first page, when beautiful Stella Madden catches the delicate odor of spring, the prose thrusts up stalks of dracaena, carnations, ger-beras, tulips, coleuses, yaupon, oleander, jasmine, gladioli, magnolia and azalea. Even the characters come equipped with floral borders: Yancey, a condemned murderer, "clutches his hyacinth-red hair"; beautiful Stella thinks of herself as an or chid, is suspended on "a liana of ecstasy...
...branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their fields and float oil barges back from the wells. Virtually every big company has fields, tank farms, refineries along its banks clear down to Corpus Christi-Texas Co., Standard Oil of N.J., Superior Oil, Magnolia, Kerr-McGee Pure Oil, Cities Service, Shell Oil, Gulf, Humble...
...Deep Oil. The Magnolia Petroleum Co. announced a drilling mud that will make it possible to reach oil at depths that could neyer be attempted before, save more than $50,000 in costs on deep wells. Chemical muds are pumped down inside a drill pipe to the bit and then back up the hole, thus holding down subterranean oil pressures, keeping the bit cool, and carrying the drill cuttings back up to the surface. In deep holes, conventional muds jell under the intense heat and dry up at 300° F, cause expensive delays. The new muds, DMS (Drilling...
...lesson to be learned from The King and I lies in the fact that two most effective scenes are the two simplest. No line of Goldwyn girls endlessly kicking as they fade toward infinity nor any impeccably starched and waltzing Corps Diplomatique nor all the magnolia-scented balls that Darryl Zanuck ever threw had half the grace of Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr romping alone to "Shall We Dance...
Timber Topper. In Jacksonville, figuring it was only a matter of time before a large, diseased magnolia tree in his yard would fall on the house, Walter Rivers hired a crane to uproot it, watched mutely as the crane slipped, sent the tree crashing through his roof...