Word: bbl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extended its wheat export subsidy plan to flour. Fortnight ago W. Lee O'Daniel, flour salesman and Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas, suggested the idea. Last week AAA announced it expected to dispose of 5,000,000 bbl. abroad...
...Savings. They had lent Prima Co. a considerable sum,'had become alarmed about their loans, so the Harris Bank suggested that Garnett C. Skinner (a onetime Hearst advertising supervisor) be put in charge of the brewery to revitalize it. During his regime Prima sales dropped from 30,000 bbl. to 5,000 bbl. per month. Prima sued the banks and won. to the tune of the judge's savage remarks about banking practices...
Only present production in Cuba is from small shallow wells at Bacuranao, Guanabacoa and Corralillo. Last year total Cuban output of crude oil was 8,193 bbl...
...took the biggest "shot" ever exploded in the British Isles, over 500 lb. of gelatinous nitroglycerin, to bring in the new Scottish field. Result was the biggest yield of oil thus far struck in the British Isles; at 750 feet the yield of one well is a modest 10 bbl. a day. Usable in Diesel engines without refining, the oil yields 12% gasoline, 12% kerosene...
Last week, K.C.L. A-2 was uneventfully running 400 bbl. of crude a day. It has been throttled down to that figure because of California's proration agreements. In a 24-hour free test run, it yielded 3,600 bbl. Even under prorated production, it is expected to return its investment-$305,000-in three years...