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When he tested his oil mine in Franklin last week,. Ranney had as backers the Pennzoil Co. and nearly a score of other companies and oilmen. They believe that the Ranneywell may be a godsend to the dwindling U.S. oil supply. Ranney believes that it could tap 60% of the 6,364,000,000 bbls. in the Pennsylvania region unobtainable by previous methods...
...swing and quasi-classical music to the disadvantage of both and the delight of millions. Comely Lena Home proficiently marshals Count Basic's band and numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer on tap, proves it in a rope dance, a modified hula and a rampant straight number on a milk-white stage battleship. But Red Skelton is the best...
...appears with her back to the camera, walking through a train. As she passes, the faces of male passengers light up as if she were at worst an improvement on Botticelli's Venus. Then she turns around. She is Deanna Durbin, ready to burst into song at the tap of a baton...
Patrice is as choice a bloom as any in the recent bevy of young sopranos. Only child of a Spokane, Wash., dentist, Patrice made her first splash six years ago when she sang before the Spokane Citizens' Club. Before she was 14 she had become a ballet and tap dancer, and an expert in what she calls "artistic whistling." For the past three years she has lived in Manhattan with her mother, who holds her to a strict daily routine: 10:30 to noon, voice lesson; 1 to 3, operatic coaching; 3 to 4, Italian lesson...
Last week, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes gave the go-ahead for a $1,400,000 drain project over three miles long, which he hopes will eventually free $200 million of water-covered zinc-lead and manganese ores.* The tunnels will tap 80 large workings, some 700 smaller mines and claims, and will drain off most of the ten billion gallons of water at a rate of nearly nine million gallons...