Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By last week, some 6% of all the oil rigs on the North American continent had moved to Scurry County, 200 wells were already in and producing at the maximum allowable rate of 35,374 barrels a day, 133 new ones were in the process of drilling, and wildcatters were...
Smart Amateurs. Owners of small farms were also cashing in. George Parks, a meatcutter who did a little ranching on the side, is now reportedly worth $250,000. Farmer Herman Huckabee is getting $3,500 a month in royalties. Farmer Jackson Ellis could not afford to hire a drilling crew...
Movie stars and lesser folk who dropped into Los Angeles' Brown Derby, La Rue's and Romanoff's restaurants last week found little warning cards on the tables. The warning: don't eat our steaks. At $5.50 to $7.50 apiece, they were "entirely too much," because...
An unsuccessful playwright on Broadway, he joined Warner Brothers as a scripter in 1936, piled up plenty of screen credits (They Won't Forget, Dust Be My Destiny, Edge of Darkness) but not much satisfaction. In 1946 he branched out as a writer-director (Johnny 0'Clock), then...
Friar's Secret. Before they had gone far, Coronado's men began to distrust everything Fray Marcos had told them. Instead of the one "small hill" that he had reported between them and Cibola, they found almost impassable mountains. Machetes had to be used to hack a way...