Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loan of $150,000 for drilling. Under the terms of last month's decree designed to stimulate development of the island's oil resources, the loan need not be repaid unless the prospectors strike oil. With close to a million acres under lease in the central Jatibonico Basin, where a wildcat syndicate last May opened up the country's first sizable oilfield, Cuban-Colombian agreed last week to drill six 4,000-ft. wells when geological surveys are completed...
...turn out to be a major discovery. In the Panhandle's Gray County, Phillips Petroleum Co.'s No. 1 Delp well has produced 3,720 barrels of oil a day on tests, plus 6.6 million cubic feet of natural gas. Geologists believe that the oil-famous Anadarko basin, major Oklahoma producer, has finally been traced into Texas...
Meanwhile the Senate was still talking. Nevada's dour George Malone was in a huff because Colorado's Eugene Millikin had blocked his pet bill to extend the tax-free whisky-bonding period. So Malone resolved to block Millikin's pet Colorado Basin project, which was the Senate's pending business. He talked about neither reclamation nor whisky and he talked for four hours. ("What is he talking about?" asked a late-coming reporter of a press-gallery attendant. "I don't know; he hasn't said," replied the attendant.) Finally Millikin threw...
McKay's reply: "As it is, 2,200 people a year see that park. On the other hand, 3,750,000 people in the Upper Colorado basin are thirsting for water. I'm all for wilderness areas, but when there is a choice between that and man's chance to earn a living on reclaimed soil, I'm for the working man's chance...
...miles the Colorado cuts across the West, drains 246,000 square miles and-thanks to reclamation projects like Hoover Dam-makes faucets flow and deserts flower. The Interior Department is presently planning to irrigate the vast Upper Colorado Basin with two more great dams. In all, another 15 million acres of the waterless West can be economically reclaimed. The rest may forever remain lunar landscape, like Green River's grotesque canyon and Monument Valley's stark buttes (see color pages...