Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel of the Williston Basin area, Miller spent several days in North Dakota last month. The first person he met, after checking into the Plainsman Hotel in Williston, was a Texan who said he was "looking over a few farms to pick up a lease or two." When he learned that Miller was with TIME, he said: "You fellows wrote me up once." The Texan, it turned out, was Dallas Insuranceman Robert Baxter, who had made this exultant boast in mid-1948: "This is a great world, and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas...
...veteran worker in conservation (he sponsored the nation's biggest forest reclamation project) and power development. Long an advocate of collaboration between states and Washington, D.C. on conservation and power, he favors regional projects, opposes the super, Fair-Deal-proposed Columbia Valley Administration because, unlike Tennessee, "the Columbia Basin is not a wornout valley where emergency measures must be invoked . . ." Eisenhower's campaign speeches echo McKay's demand for "orderly development watched over by people who live in and love the region...
George Geiger's death in the tiny (1,000 sq. mi.) coal-rich Saar basin, the No. 1 trouble spot in Western Europe, set the Rhine River foaming with ancient controversy. On the German shore. Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher flatly accused the Saar's French bosses of "political murder." From the French bank came shouts of rage. "The Germans are up to their old tricks of 1938, when they accused the Poles of similar atrocities," snapped an unforgiving Quai d'Orsay staffer...
...busy, as usual, indulging his passion. In Oklahoma, he was drilling four wells; in California, three; in Louisiana, one; in New Mexico, nine; and in Canada, four. He was busiest of all in North Dakota. There, he was drilling 20 wells. For in North Dakota's Williston Basin, Jacobsen has made his biggest strike. He has found many a new oilfield in the past. But in North Dakota he found something far bigger. Says he: "The Williston Basin is not just one oilfield. It is an oil province...
...just the steady hissing of moist gas, smelling like rotten eggs. Then came the oil-a greenish-yellow stream. Amerada had brought in its 70th Williston producer, and Farmer Osborn was on his way to wealth. By year's end Amerada will have 75 producers in the basin, in another year more than...