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...drill pulled out. Hurriedly the hole was cased with seven-inch pipe and capped. Then, when all was ready, the cap was opened. With a great hiss, jets of water and drilling-mud shot out of the hole. For a few minutes there was just the steady hissing of moist gas, smelling like rotten eggs. Then came the oil-a greenish-yellow stream. Amerada had brought in its 70th Williston producer, and Farmer Osborn was on his way to wealth. By year's end Amerada will have 75 producers in the basin, in another year more than...
...razzle-dazzle climb from two reels and a crank in a primitive lower Manhattan studio to control of a lavish Hollywood lot. March an army of extras in slow motion through the lives of father & son featuring such types as deep, silent directors (genius division), mean old financiers with moist-eyed granddaughters, fading stars, grasping agents, gossip columnists, and other native life of the celluloid jungle. Dub in a score of documentary asides on 20 pre-talkie years of motion-picture history, focus on the printed page, and the nickering result is The Magic Lantern, Author Robert Carson...
...personality who has brought back to the movies the kind of unbridled sex appeal that has been missing since the days of Clara Bow and Jean Harlow. The trademarks of Marilyn's blonde allure (Rust 37 in., hips 37 in., waist 24 in.) are her moist, half-closed eyes and moist, half-opened mouth. She is a movie pressagent's dream...
...moist heat of East Africa the locusts bred and multiplied. Then, sudden as an explosion, vast swarms rose up to darken the sky. A single swarm may occupy 250 sq. mi. of space, contain perhaps 500 million locusts, and weigh 700 tons. At least 30 swarms headed northward...
...freight train, locomotive and all, to carry a pound of butter." A transistor gets along with a millionth of a watt, not enough in most cases to make it faintly warm. The Bell men take a bit of blotting paper, chew it for a while, and wrap it moist around a 25? piece. When wires are clipped to this combination, it makes a battery strong enough to work a transistor...