Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vaudeville was the star at the opening of the newest U.S. television station, American Broadcasting Co.'s WJZ-TV. The first show, from 7 o'clock until nearly midnight, featured all of vaudeville's tried & true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about the good old days; Ray Bolger danced a comic solo interpretation of the Joe Louis-Tony Galento fight; James (Tobacco Road) Barton played a drunk; Beatrice Lillie (who played the Palace...
...Tap Roots (Universal-International) is a Civil War movie with an angle which will probably seem new to average ex-students of U.S. history. Adapted from James Street's bestseller, it is the story of Mississippians who refused to secede from the Union, holed up in a valley, and stuck by their guns until the guns were shot out of their hands. Another angle fully as novel to moviegoers is the Handsome Confederate Officer (Whitfield Connor). Not only is he not the soul of gallantry & honuh; he has the soul of a razorback...
Fred Astaire, who was talked out of a twelve-month retirement to pinch-tap for an injured star in Easter Parade last October, got a return break. When his co-star in The Barkleys of Broadway got sick, Ginger Rogers agreed to fill in, effecting a nostalgic screen reunion after ten years...
Even where the soil is fertile, the only wealth yet tapped is rubber. For a few brief years at the turn of the century, when rubber sold for $1 a pound, prodigious fortunes were made by rubber barons who hired natives to slip through the jungles and tap wild trees (which the Indians had known as "weeping wood"). But first, plantation rubber from the Indies and then synthetic rubber from the U.S. cut the price. Today the Amazon valley is barely struggling along with a temporary subsidy guaranteeing 50? a pound-more than twice the world price...
Nobody was going to tap old Vesuvius. But, the U.S. State Department announced, Italy is going to eke out its meager power supply with volcanic energy. A $6,000,000 new power station will be built at Lar-derello (near Leghorn), using volcanic steam to generate about 75,000 kilowatts...