Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...records were broken last week in the rocketing Alberta oil boom. A public auction of government-owned oil and natural-gas leases totaled $12,881,436, surpassing the previous record for a one-day sale by more than $3,000,000. One of the leases, for a 160-acre plot in the Bonnie Glen field southwest of Edmonton, was sold to the Texaco Exploration Co. for $3,110,000, the highest price ever paid for a single parcel of Alberta oil land...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church last week, delegates to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) met to hear reports on the state of the church, plot its course for another year, and elect a new Moderator to guide it. It was the 150th anniversary year of Presbyterian national missions, and as Moderator, the delegates, without a dissenting vote, chose the churchman who knows most about the church's mission work: the Rev. Hermann N. Morse, 64, of New York...
Unfortunately, the trip was not necessary for a plot that is homegrown Hollywood, a handsome bushranger (Peter Lawford), who is wanted by the police, poses as Rancher Finlay Currie's long-lost son. But when Lawford finds that he has an unbrotherly affection for Currie's red-haired daughter (Maureen O'Hara), he owns up to his real identity, with the result that both love and justice come out on top Down Under...
...attempts to penetrate the thoughts of an old dowager. However, I could never see Miss Emmet's main character as an old woman: rather her emotions are always too youthful. The physical description of the woman seems to frame a personality nearer Miss Emmet's age. Besides this, the plot itself is too loose and rambling...
...Atomic City opens with a bang, the biggest bang of the century -- an atomic bomb explosion. This, plus the setting of part of the plot in Los Alamos, the Oak Ridge of the Southwest, gives the film its title. But the legend of Simon Legree gives it its plot...