Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With high hopes, Allen Moye, 39, a hard-scrabbling cotton planter and hog raiser, gave rights to Humble Oil & Refining Co. to drill a wildcat well on his 100-acre farm, just five miles above the Florida line, near Pollard, Ala. He knew the odds were long even though Humble, one of the biggest wildcat gamblers in the U.S., was doing the drilling. For 18 days, Moye, his wife and four children watched as the Humble bits sank a full mile below the cotton fields without striking anything. Then, under the glare of the night lights...
...Mobile, which now has 69 producing wells. Humble opened the second field, the Carlton, some 55 miles northeast of Mobile in 1949, now has nine producers there. In all these, the oil must be pumped up, usually the sign of a small field. But when Humble's Allen Moye No. 1 Well came in under its own pressure, oilmen quickly changed their minds, now think that Alabama may become a big producer...
Besides its program of talks, Gold announced that the Forum is printing up a transcript of last December's debate on academic freedom between Allen A. Zoll, executive vice-president of the National Council for American Education, McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government, and Carey McWilliams, associate editor of the Nation. The pamphlet should be ready within the next month, Gold said...
...football is good football. To the Cambridge police, for their absurd insistence on towing away student's cars which sit quietly on the streets, hurting nobody. To Congress, for passing piecemeal draft legislation and keeping college students in a state of perpetual confusion and uncertainty. And, finally, to Allen Zoll, William F. Buckley, and all their friends and associates who are dedicated to the proposition that American universities are the fountainheads of revolution...
...foul-up at Merignac is an international affair. The wing itself, under the command of Brigadier General Allen, has hardly begun to whip itself into shape. The European Air Force command at Wiesbaden fell down on the job of getting Merignac ready for the 126th. And then there are the French...