Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those rare males who prove amusing rather than embarrassing in women's clothes, Bolger clowns through the evening with his customary long-faced liveliness. And when he takes it into his feet to kick off both his petticoats and the plot, and spins in a medley of tap, softshoe, eccentric and ballroom dancing, Where's Charley? becomes the most delightful disappointment of the season...
...jayvee football team will accompany the Varsity westward on Friday, for a game against Army's second string. This will make a total of 72 players that will be on tap for Saturday's Varsity encounter, and Art Valpey is planning to dress several men for both games...
...Louisville, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, who evidently does not share President Truman's fears that a Republican administration would cause a depression, told a bankers' meeting that he expected continued prosperity for years ahead. Said Snyder: "We have only begun to tap the billions of savings built up during the war years...
Airline men, who know that they must tap the middle and lower income groups if they are to survive the air travel slump, expect that Pan Am's trick will soon be adopted by other lines. Said T.W.A.'s Warren Lee Pierson: "The principle of low-cost service has been recognized by the steamships and the railroads while the airlines have stubbornly clung to a one-class service. It's time the airlines offered a choice of classes...
...world's great oil pools lies in the underwater tidelands of the Gulf of Mexico. To tap it, Humble Oil & Refining Co., a Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary, went 7½ miles out to sea, built an island of steel and started drilling through the Gulf floor. Last week, Humble announced that it had brought in its first big tidelands well, a strike that produced 887 barrels of oil a day before it was choked back...