Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tideland Oil problem started with the discovery of off-shore oil deposits in California at the turn of the century. Not much was done with this discovery until the end of the twenties. Large-scale development of the area began in 1933 with the perfection of directional drilling, which allowed the necessary machinery to be on land. By 1947, California was receiving nearly $4 million in annual royalties from its off-shore oil. The importance of Tideland Oil has greatly increased with the more recent prospecting in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Over...
...with four, "if I lay on my back." He once read that Heavyweight Max Baer recommended sleeping that way, earnestly agrees that "it's the only kind of sleep that eases you off." The first thing he does on arising is to turn on two or three radios, one in each room, and they stay on all day. Louis doesn't care what the program is ("I can get something out of any of them"). Apparently, sweet, slurred stuff is just as acceptable to him as hot jazz. His favorite "listening band" for years has been Guy Lombardo...
...week to find its new-found optimism dramatized at last. For the first time in eleven years, M-G-M summoned 81 of its far-flung sales executives to hear the good news straight from the front office: the company, which released 24 pictures last year, was going to turn out an imposing total of 67 in the next 12 to 15 months...
...triangle situation luckily lacks the long passionate moments of hackncydom and Renunciation that inevitable turn up in homegrown productions. Instead of showing the audience that the analyst is cheating, "Mine Own Executioner" tips us off to the reasons and analyzes them...
Harvard should either awake to the fact that the automobile is here to stay or also turn the Perkins lot into a yachting basin. Robert Bracken...