Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tide Rising (by George Brewer Jr.; Aldrich & Myers, producers) is a praiseworthy attempt to dramatize the political middle-of-the-road and to distinguish, in the blind storm of passionate prejudices which howl from the Right and Left, the path of truth and justice. In so doing, Playwright Brewer, who wrote Dark Victory for Tallulah Bankhead two seasons ago, occasionally loses his dramatic footing, but never his sense of criticism or fair play...
...economic fulcrum on which Tide Rising is balanced is Jim Cogswell (Grant Mitchell), a smalltown New England druggist. Jim is the kind of man who pays his debts, faces his business troubles courageously, acknowledges his responsibility to the community by serving on the :own council. A natural point of pressure from both the haves and the havenots, Jim runs into his first dilemma when the town's poor folk and laborers want him to authorize construction of a needless high school, while the town's rich folk warn him that he had better not do anything o raise...
...solution of Tide Rising's problem is melodramatic rather than sociologically practical, no fault can be found with Jim's bewildered but honest theme: "I don't know the answers to all these questions. Maybe nobody knows. But I do know they can't be settled by strikes and riots and civil...
...short-handled shovel." At home and abroad, young Mr. Rockefeller's business last week displayed these proofs of prosperity: ¶ U. S. oil production set a new all-time high with an average daily flow of 3,184,-650 bbl. ¶ Just short of one year ago Tide Water Associated Oil Co. "spudded in" a well in California's Ventura Avenue field six miles from the sea. It was named McGon-ig! No. 12 after the owners of the land...
...month at 10.244 ft., setting a new depth record for a producing oil well. At McGonigle No. 12 the bit, now down to 4! in., ground around & around until it was down to 10,569 ft., just nine feet over two miles. Then the oil flowed, bringing back to Tide Water the title it has held six times since 1921, when 4,683 ft. was deep enough for a world record, C. Offered last week by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Lehman Bros, and a syndicate of 72 banking houses were $40,000,000 worth of 15-year 3^% sinking fund debentures...