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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimated $10,000 to $15,000 a month for life from the royalties of it and other wells. It had also proved up another big area in Scurry County's incredible Canyon Reef oilfield, where movie stars and other hopeful wildcatters had been prospecting for months (TIME, Oct. 10). To oilmen it looked as if the Scurry pool was the biggest since the East Texas field came in in 1930. Estimates of its riches ranged upwards of one billion barrels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Biggest Thing Yet? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Passport to Pimlico. The British at their comic best, spoofing nationalism, bureaucracy and themselves (TIME, Oct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Heiress. Producer-Director William Wyler's highly polished film about a jilted wallflower; with Olivia de Havilland and Ralph Richardson (TIME, Oct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Some fresh Walt Disney creations; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME, Oct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Pinky. The most skillful propaganda-entertainment to come out of Hollywood's current preoccupation with the plight of the U.S. Negro; starring Jeanne Crain (TIME, Oct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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