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...announcement came almost two years to the day (Feb. 13, 1947) after Alberta's famed Leduc well had started production. In those two years Alberta's output had risen to 45,000 barrels a day, was just a shade short of meeting the average daily oil requirements (55,000 barrels) of Canada's three prairie provinces...
...semi-mass production basis (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). They used a huge earth-moving machine to root out foundations, a concrete mixer to move from site to site pouring concrete slabs for house bases (no basements). In 1946 they finished 1,000 homes, sold them to veterans for a shade under...
Tevye and his troubles are at the center of Sholom Aleichem's classic Yiddish tales, which in the past half century have become an integral part of Jewish folk life. Some have been translated into English in Tevye's Daughters-though with only a shade of the ironic, shoulder-shrugging spirit of the original...
Punch now sells 176,000 copies a week, higher than prewar but a shade under the 1947 record of 184,000. Any change Bird makes will be gradual; he doesn't want to lose an old reader to gain a new one. He brushes off inquiries about his plans: "Nothing is ever planned on Punch'' he chuckles. "It just happens...
...rates nearly seven? It would be unkind, perhaps, to grudge Simeon Strunsky and Jan Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five...