Word: tappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shell and Jersey Standard finally hit natural gas under the muddy reclaimed soil of The Netherlands' north eastern province of Groningen. How big the fields were neither the oilmen nor the government ever felt moved to disclose. But fortnight ago. coming before Parliament to ask authority to tap the fields. Economics Minister Jan De Pous at last let the gas out of the bag. The Netherlands' known reserves of natural gas. he reported, amounted to at least 350 billion cubic meters-more than the combined reserves of France and Italy, and enough to supply all the Common Market...
...stage, Captain Macheath and Mrs. Peachum can scream bitter words to sneering music; but in the audience a dentist will tap his feet and hum along gaily. "This is as good as My Fair Lady," he whispers to his plump wife. "It's better," she answers; "it's more modern...
...though a trickling tap had suddenly been turned full on, Soviet bloc aid is pouring into Cuba. Since July 26, some 20 Soviet ships have embarked from Black Sea, Baltic and Siberian ports; by Aug. 8 at least eight vessels had docked at Cuban ports to unload military goods and 5,000 "technicians...
...Jour's breezy programs, reaching 200 miles inland, were an instant success. Advertisers flocked to buy time at $40 for 60-second spots. Listeners tuned in to tap their feet to U.S. jazz and rock 'n' roll. The embarrassed government threatened to confiscate the ship if it sailed into Swedish waters, predicted that Swedes would get bored with Radio Nord once the novelty wore away. This month, after the station had picked up an estimated 2,600,000 listeners, the government finally cracked down...
Specter of Violence. Grudgingly, Portugal has allowed an infusion of foreign capital; hydroelectric plants and factories are going up, while foreign consortiums are preparing to tap Angola's oil and mineral resources. But the Portuguese keep such tight control over the use of foreign funds that many investors are scared off. New hospitals are being built in the bush, and bulldozers are plowing through Luanda's disgraceful slums, preparing new housing projects. A crash program to build new schools should double Angola's school population by 1963. Fortnight ago, the Portuguese government agreed to the opening...