Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after months of investigation, the same federal grand jury in Brooklyn that indicted Bolich charged Nunan with tax fraud and evasion. The indictment said that over a five-year period Nunan had cheated Uncle Sam...
Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish fairy tale, set to music, about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...
...jungle and put his name to a new contract with Columbia. The schedule: three serials, 17 features (Prisoners of the Casbah, Charge of the Lancers, Jesse James Meets Bill Dalton), and probably at least one more like the Biblical epic Slaves of Babylon, soon to be released. Says Jungle Sam: "We got underwater stuff and we got overwater stuff and we got those three characters in the fiery furnace and on top of that we got Linda Christian doing her first screen dance." He frankly admits that many of his pictures are obvious remakes of past smashes. But he beams...
...locating the possible oil-bearing area; picking the spot to drill was easy. Says Jacobsen: "Any office boy at Amerada could have done that because you drill in the peak of the dome. As long as you stay in that area you could pick your spot by the Sam Weaver method...
...Sam Weaver was an old driller who provided one of the industry's classic anecdotes. Some 40 years ago, his crew was about to start drilling in Mexico in a cow pasture, when one of the crew asked Weaver where to drill. Replied Weaver: "Watch the cows and drill where the first cow pie falls...