Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curves eastward down toward Mexico. The west side of San Andreas arcs steadily northward nearly 2 in. a year, grinding the two faces of the great crack in the earth's surface layers until something has to give and let the faces slip into realignment. The crumbling rock where the slip starts is the epicenter of an earthquake of the kind that often jiggles San Francisco, and once (in 1906) touched off a fire that nearly destroyed all of it except Hotaling's Liquor Warehouse on Jackson St.* and a few other buildings...
...concerned about the noise he was making back home. "Nothing worse than listening to a lot of chatter on the air if you can't make out what I'm saying." He was right. TV Critic John Crosby said he sounded like "Gerald McBoing Boing doing a rock-'n'-roll number with a trio called The Three Sunspots," and what Godfrey didn't know was that back home the studio audience was walking out in droves when he tuned in (cracked Hayes: "The natives get restless in the basement"). The great white hunter was undaunted...
...last the threatened city looked its enemy in the face. The geologists' reports left no doubt: the Wilmington oil sands, more than 1,000 ft. thick, have no strong rock over them. When the oil flowed out, the sands shrank slowly, and the surface sank, forming a great bowl, 24 ft. deep and more than 20 sq. mi. in area, that now reaches from the business center of Long Beach to the boundary of Los Angeles...
...named Zeke Johnson, whose son Jimmy was one of Steen's first miners. Steen, short of cash, had asked Jimmy Johnson to find a camp cook, and Jimmy talked his mother into taking on the job. In return, Steen gratefully told the Johnsons to look over some promising rock formations ten miles north of Mi Vida. Zeke Johnson did, and staked out his claims. They were so promising that Cord and his friends paid Johnson $80,000 in cash and royalties that would guarantee him up to $500,000 if the mine paid off. It did, after Cord...
Giant. A big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, directed by George Stevens; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...