Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nothing. But what really titillated the industry was that oil from the Cottingham may be the beginning of the end of a weary search for a vast new northwestern Oklahoma oilfield in what geologists long ago named the Anadarko Basin. Though seismograph crews have swarmed over the basin for eleven years, dynamiting and painstakingly recording the sound waves that came back to their earphones, its area and oil content are still unknown. Until the Cottingham came in on the east flank of the basin, Anadarko produced little but "dry hole money"-the cash that oil companies advance to an enterprising...
...season begins on Sunday, April 9 in the Charles River Basin with a regatta in which five other local colleges are entered. The prize is the Rudolf O. Oberg trophy. On Sunday, April 23, Harvard will go to New London to compete for the George Owen Trophy in the Eastern Dinghy Championship races. On Saturday and Sunday, May 6 and 7, again on the Thames, Crimson entries will race in the New England Dinghy Championship runs...
Twenty colleges in addition to the local yachtsmen will compete in the National Dinghy Championship, the most important race of the season, to be held in the Charles River Basin on Saturday and Sunday...
More painful to the Germans than all this promise of trouble was the loss of the great captured empire which was to feed Germany's factories and her people. Gone were the oil of the Caucasus, the wheat of the Ukraine, the coal of the Donets basin. Now, at Nikopol, the Germans lost more than half of the manganese used by their industry. When the iron of Kirvoi Rog is lost, Hitler's fond dream of military and economic self-sufficiency in Russia would come...
...venture is set for four weeks, with an option. Whatever happens, it's a great break for honest, uncompromising Jazz. The band is fearless--anyone asking for a waltz will be politely informed that a dozen choruses of "Basin Street Blues" is much better for the nerves, and all requests for rhumbas will be filled with "Riverboat Shuffle...