Word: bbl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...products are called naval stores. Three hundred years later the same timberlands (from North Carolina to Texas) yielded 80% of the world's turpentine (for thinning paint) and rosin (for soap, paper making, varnishes), still called naval stores. By 1900 this industry was turning out annually 600,000 bbl. of turpentine, 2,000,000 bbl. of rosin, hit $63,500,000 in 1921. Of that lush business, some 60% was in exports. In all those years turpentiners had but one worry: to keep ahead of the logging crews. Cheap Negro labor ($4-$6 a week today) slit the trees...
...just getting ready to dig a 4,300-foot well in Ector County, West Texas . . . and ... I don't believe there is even any doubt but that we will have anywhere from 50 feet to 100 feet of oil saturation and make anywhere from a 100 bbl. to a 1,200 bbl. well that will . . . produce oil longer than you or I will live. For $15,000 cash help right now I can give you one-half interest in the well and 80 acres, fully equipped including the tanks. . . . My time limit is getting short...