Word: bbl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visit law courts. He was not worried by litigation. In fact he often fell asleep on the benches in courtrooms. A rival oilman had his first lease cancelled in court and Crazy Jack declared incompetent. A local businessman was appointed his guardian. Soon his farm was producing 12,000 bbl. of oil a day and his income had reached $60,000 a month...
Operating costs are so high that a factory ship and its fleet of chasers must average a whale a day to break even. The average blue whale produces about 100 barrels of oil worth around $1,000. World production rose from 1,300,000 bbl. in the 1928-29 season to 3,600,000 bbl. in the 1930-31 season. This was more than the world could use either in soap or in European margarine. So in 1931-32 most of the Antarctic companies declared a whaling holiday and production dropped to 775,000 bbl. In the season just closed...
...holdings of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of wildcatters," "richest independent operator in the world," that even after he sold the major part of his Southwestern leases to Prairie Oil in 1929 for $35,000,000, he still had 112 wells in Oklahoma producing 20,000 bbl. a day. These holdings, known as the Slick-Urschel Oil Co., have been managed since his death by Charles F. Urschel, ransomed from kidnappers last summer (TIME, July 31, Aug. 7), and by Mrs. Slick who became Mrs. Urschel. Slick Oil has sold most of its output to Stanolind Crude Oil Purchasing...
...liquor tax schedule: Spirits-$2 per gal., up from $1.10. Light wines-10? per gal., up from 4?. Heavy wines-20? per gal., up from 10?. Fortified wines-40? to $2 per gal., up from 25? & $1.10. Domestic sparkling wines-80? per gal, down from $1.92. Beer-$5 per bbl., down from...
Decreasing the levy on full-strength beer from $6 to $5 a bbl...