Word: saucers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Creole Petroleum Corp., a Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) affiliate and Venezuela's biggest producer, bought 24,700 acres of underwater concessions in Lake Maracaibo, where a saucer of water lies over what seems to be an ocean of oil. Creole also took on 98.800 acres of exploration concessions in lands of still unproved value. Total cost: $25 million...
...World War II Royal Navy flyer and jet test pilot, Stevenson has been forced out of Yugoslavia, denounced by the Peking radio for his stories after a trip through Red China, and scolded by the Canadian government for breaking a story on Canada's highly secret "flying saucer"-a saucer-shaped aircraft expected to fly 1,500 m.p.h. In Korea, where he won the Canadian Press Board Award for foreign correspondence, he was lost for four days behind enemy lines. In Indo-China, where the French "were so disorganized they let me fly their planes," a cyclist threw...
...official taps on the saucer and calls, "Are you there?" and the tune that cuts in immediately is: "I hear ya knockin' but ya can't come in." Announcer: "Have you come to conquer the world?" Tune: "Don't want the world to have and hold." Announcer: "The Secretary of Defense has just said_" Tune: "Ain't it a shame?" Announcer: "I believe the spaceman has a final parting word." Tune: "See you later, alligator...
...Flying Saucer was dreamed up by a pair of young men who are trying to crash the music business: Dick Goodman, 22, who quit N.Y.U. to write songs, and Bill Buchanan, 24, a song publisher. The idea looked so good to them that they started the Luniverse label to make the record...
Since The Flying Saucer includes no fewer than 16 "quotations" from other records, music publishers and record companies at first claimed infringement of their copyrights, and threatened lawsuits. But settlements were quickly reached with most of the publishers, particularly when it appeared that the record was becoming a hit; being quoted on The Flying Saucer actually improved sales of rock-'n'-roll tunes. By now, record companies whose disks are not represented on The Flying Saucer are downright hurt. "It's the greatest sampler of all," wailed one publisher. "If you're not on Saucer...