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...awarding Phillips the first Alaskan oil development contract, the Government set stiff terms. Phillips will have to spend at least $1,200,000 on exploration before June 30, 1956, and another 40? an acre on the million-acre tract every year thereafter. It must also sink two wells by 1956, start another two by the middle of 1958, and drill a well a year in each of the two adjoining districts* (Katalla-Yakataga) from 1959 to 1963, making a total of twelve wells in ten years. Phillips will lose the rights to land it does not develop under the terms...
...wouldn't stay put, and there they sent Reid. The castle at Colditz, in Saxony, was considered escape-proof, and it certainly looked it. "Almost upon leaving the station, we saw looming above us our future prison: beautiful, serene, majestic, and yet forbidding enough to make our hearts sink into our boots." Although most of Germany was blacked out against Allied air attacks, powerful searchlights shone on every inch of Colditz all night...
...Hazel Bishop No-Smear Lipstick commercial. Last week Edwards addressed Lillian Roth as if he were a supernatural prosecutor: "Confusion, distress and tragedy walked by your side even as you rose to the top-and soon all glamour was stripped from you, as drink follows drink, and you sink into a stupor that was to last for 16 years. These are the years to come before us in just a moment...
Evaluating Truman's eight years in the White House, Schlesinger stated, "I believe that the faults and failures of his administration will sink out of sight as time goes on, whereas the great accomplishments will stand out as marking a major turning point in American history...
...NCAA rules on fouls are primarily responsible for the sudden scoring increase. The "one-and-one" rule on free throws which allows a player two chances to sink each foul has caused scores to skyrocket...