Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice law in Amarillo and earned a reputation as a rugged in-fighter when he was elected mayor of Amarillo in 1929. When he was appointed to a vacancy on the commission in June 1932, the price of crude oil had collapsed, down from $1.10 to iof/ a barrel. Although engineers had warned that withdrawal of more than 400,000 bbls. a day would soon kill off the field (by exhausting the gas or water pressure), production was hitting more than twice that figure. Says Thompson: "There was twice as much oil as we could use . . . The creeks were full...
...white aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with $165,000 for theatrical charities. It was really Sophie's 49th year in show business, but, as she happily explained in her rain-barrel bass: "Honey, I'm all booked up next year; there wouldn't have been time then." The air was damp with sentiment as a succession of old friends and fans, e.g., General James Van Fleet, Ralph Bunche, Tallulah Bankhead, George Jessel, Millon...
...great crowd on the beach watched him make his flights: two passes over the course in each direction to average out the wind. He flew just off the shore at 50 feet above the water, and when he finished he did a triumphant barrel roll to entertain the beach sitters. The Royal Aero Club announced that he had broken the record, but Airman Duke was not satisfied. After an early supper of cold roast beef, he made four more runs. His average speed of 727.6 m.p.h. exceeded the previous record (made by U.S.A.F. Lieut. Colonel William Barns-TIME. July...
...Bigger Yields. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) announced a new refining process called fluid coking, which gets 10% to 20% more gasoline and home-heating fuels from a barrel of crude. In Standard's process, the heavy crude residue is bombarded with a fluidlike stream of hot, finely divided coke particles, which causes it to vaporize, re-form as useful, light petroleum products...
...Boston American's ski columnist could not decide whether to call snow "the elusive white substance" or "the heavenly tapioca." And in Travel magazine, skiers slid down the slopes on "the beatified barrel staves...