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...stabbed the night sky. The land that had been a dust bowl only 20 years ago was now an El Dorado to many farmers who had been on relief or working for WPA. Overnight, they had become wealthy. Last week the big opportunity had come for Farmer Lewis M. Osborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Great Hunter | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Working day & night, Amerada's drillers had driven a three-cone rotary rock-bit deeper & deeper into the earth of Osborn's farm. The rig's platform throbbed with the clanking rumble of a diesel engine spinning the drill. As the drill bit down into the earth, new lengths of 60-ft. pipe were threaded on to join the mile-and-a-half of pipe already whirling below ground in a single, continuous column. At 8,663 ft. the drilling was stopped, the drill pulled out. Hurriedly the hole was cased with seven-inch pipe and capped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Great Hunter | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Bravo! for your stand. R. Osborn Salisbury, Connecticut

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WISDOM | 10/16/1952 | See Source »

Thomas Nelson & Sons, publishers of the new Revised Standard Version of the Bible, called on the advertising firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn fof a market survey before deciding on the format. Among the facts & figures turned up in the B.B.D. & O. survey of 2,474 housewives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bible Poll | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...that her husband was hired by her father to marry her; that the other woman (Ruth Roman) expects Van back as soon as she is dead; that even her faithful maid has another job ready & waiting the moment the funeral is over. These scenes, painstakingly written by Playwright Paul Osborn (On Borrowed Time, Point of No Return), have a certain effectiveness, but it is eventually canceled out by a slick reconciliation and by the offstage presence of a Hollywooden surgeon who knows just how to operate to save Dorothy's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1952 | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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