Word: bbl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After one week of martial law, Oklahoma production fell to 264,500 bbl. per day, after two weeks was estimated below 120,000 bbl., a drop of more than 300,000 bbl...
...swing in behind Oklahoma and Texas for better oil prices, Kansas, through its Public Service Commissioner, ordered producers to boost crude prices to 60? per bbl. or show cause why their wells should not be closed down...
...their posts through the field Governor Sterling proclaimed martial law, ordered every one of the 1,600 flush wells in the 2,815 sq. mi. of Upshur. Gregg, Rusk and Smith Counties shut down. Last week this field, running wide open, produced an all-time record of 738,000 bbl. This week under the Governor's orders they were to produce not a barrel. Proclaimed Governor Sterling...
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, lines held tight in Governor Murray's oil war. After eight days martial law had failed to budge economic law and Oklahoma crude was sellins at 52? per bbl. Governor Murray announced that two refining companies (Champlin and Cushing) had offered to pay his price of $1 per bbl. if he would remove guardsmen from their wells. "If I'm convinced the offers were made in good faith. I might allow them to open up," mused he between spits of tobacco juice as he set out for a week-end visit to Texas...