Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miller first met Oilman Alfred Jacobsen last March when he was working on a story about Amerada Petroleum Corp.'s successful wildcatting in the Williston Basin (TIME, March 24). Impressed by Jacobsen's candor and executive ability and by Amerada's phenomenal success, Miller later suggested Jacobsen as the cover subject for a story on the oil industry...
...Talara, is a major Sechura bidder. Other foreign applicants: Peruvian Gulf, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corp.; Richmond Petroleum, subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California; Conorada, jointly owned by Continental Oil, Ohio Oil and Amerada Petroleum Corp., principal wildcatter in North Dakota's new and gushing Williston Basin. All of these except Peruvian Gulf have asked for both exploration and exploitation concessions, indicating that they think the oil is there and are ready to lay out considerable sums right away...
...Ning-i, listing some-doubtless not all-of the Chinese projects on which Russian experts have been working: the Peking-Hankow, Canton-Hankow, Chengtu-Chungking and Tienshui-Lanchow railways; the Huai River conservation plan (employing some 5,000,000 workers, many of them slave laborers); the Chinkiang water detention basin, the new Tangku harbor in Tientsin. According to best estimates, there are 60,000 Russians "helping out" in China...
...team meets M.I.T. in the Basin next Sunday in the wind-up, a mile race for the championship. The meet may also end the season, since a trip to the national dinghy races is still in the tentative stage. The usual team, Charlie Hoppin, Jim Nathanson, Tim Brown, and George Robertson, sailed in yesterday's encounter...
Varsity fall crews ends tomorrow at 11 a.m. with a race between four evenly matched boats in the Charles River Basin. The race begins a three-week vacation for the varsity before they begin working out in the tank. Freshman eights continue rowing in the river until the first freeze...