Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pakistan complained to the U.N. last week that it "faces an unparalleled threat-starvation by a process of slow strangulation." The strangler, said Pakistan, is its neighbor, India. The process: "depriving 76 million persons of the waters of the Indus basin, by which they live...
...multimillion-dollar plants were no rarity, some Texans predicted that petrochemicals would outstrip oil as their biggest industry. But Texas and the Gulf Coast had no monopoly on petrochemicals; California was giving it a race, and in the Great Plains' great new oil province of the Williston Basin, North Dakotans were predicting that their own petrochemical industry would soon arise...
...five years ago, let their stomachs-and memories-decide. In 1935, after voting-90%-to rejoin the Reich, the Saarlanders heard Adolf Hitler promise: "In ten years' time, you won't know your city of Saarbrücken." Hitler was right: by 1945 the entire Saar basin was a heap of smoldering ruins...
...general use for finding oil. It has since kept a bit ahead of most oil companies in their use. Says Jacobsen: "I guess we manage to squeeze a little bit more information out of our maps." On the other hand, he adds, "we found oil in the Williston Basin with the same men and the same methods with which we missed it in other places that looked just as good. In the end, to find oil, you still have to drill a well...
...seemed to be the fact that it had Jacobsen. Amerada's net profit rose from $1,147,207 in 1932 to $16,296,652 in 1951. Its estimated oil reserves rose to 500 million bbls., without counting the hundreds of millions more that may be in the Williston Basin...