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...Paris, as Director Billy Wilder has filmed and cut it, is a striking piece of cinematic craftsmanship. One by one, like bricks in a rising wall the difficulties are stacked in front of the hero (James Stewart) and in the moviegoer's mind: bad weather, the sod runway almost ankle-deep in mud and spotted with potholes, high wires and high trees near the field's edge, engine running 30 revs too low, gas load at least a hundred gallons more than the plane has ever taken off with, pilot already worn from lack of sleep, worried faces...
...they called him) was-with all his $30 million-a different kind of millionaire. Born in a sod hut in Kansas, he became a world-famed geologist, helped found the famed oil-hunting Amerada Petroleum Corp., amassing his millions along the way. Seeking still greater independence, he left Amerada and in 1936 founded the consulting firm of DeGolyer & McNaughton, soon made a new name for himself as a man of integrity and accuracy in the infinitely painstaking business of oil exploration. His uncanny, top-of-the-head appraisal of oil property came to be accepted in Texas as the last...
Income from Conservation. From the total 356,250,000 U.S. acres now sown to non-sod crops, the soil-bank plan would take 16 million out of production in the first twelve months of a 15-year, $1.4 billion program aimed at eliminating 23 million acres. An eventual total of 1,000,000 U.S. farmers would be paid up to $5,000 a year, get $15-$20 an acre for cover-crop seeds, plus annual payments of 5%-7% of the appraised value of the land they convert...
Pretty soon Cowpoke Clark is talking about a little vine-covered 'dobe on Prairie Dog Creek, but Jane won't hear of such "dirty, mangy, sod-bustin' livin'." She shoots straight: "Ah dream BIG." Clark fires back: "Ah dream SMAWWLLL." She takes up her quilt and walks. Enter the villain (Robert Ryan), who also dreams big. Ryan offers Jane the territory of Montana if she will let him assume her burden of quilt. She agrees, and he dresses her up like a real front-tier belle, but even as she is sprayed with Paris perfume, Jane...
...this stratagem can be is shown by Charles Wimar, an immigrant German boy whose murals in the St. Louis Courthouse were the first west of the Mississippi. By painting straight into a sunset, he gave his painting a superb sense of the loneliness of an early settler's sod hut, lost in a distance that dwarfed all things human...