Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago this month one George Combes, putting on the 18th green of the Dyker Beach Park Municipal Golf Course in Brooklyn, N. Y., was struck in the eye by a ball driven from the fourth tee by one Edward Applestein. Last week, agreeing with Golfer Combes's contention that the City of New York "created a hazardous condition when it placed the fourth tee and the 18th green too close together," a jury awarded him $10,000 of the city's money for the loss...
Died. John Davison Rockefeller, 97; of sclerotic myocarditis (hardening of the heart muscles); at "The Casements," at Ormond Beach...
Meanwhile in California a longer and louder wrangle over off-shore oil wells was settled, at least for several years to come, when Governor Merriam signed a bill for leasing State-owned oil land under the sea near Huntington Beach.* A legislative headache in California for years, this strip of tideland holds natural gas and oil worth about $500,000,000. At one time the State tried leasing it to oil companies which did their drilling from piers built out through the surf. Opposition came not from fishermen but from bathers who found oil scum all over their beaches. They...
This almost perfect technique for extracting oil from the State's underwater territory was not neglected by California oil companies. By 1934 about 100 wells had been drilled by independent companies on town lots at Huntington Beach, whip-stocked down through beach property owned by Standard Oil Co. of California and out into the State oil pool. Caught at this, the companies were penalized only by being forced to pay 14% royalties or less on the stolen oil. Next year a special investigating committee found that Standard had also been tapping the State pool with vertical wells. Standard offered...
Reassembled this week in the harbor of Honolulu and at Pearl Harbor, the U. S. fleet currently sails for California. To their bases at San Diego and Long Beach are ordered 42 destroyers, 20 submarines, 12 minesweepers, three destroyer tenders, three submarine tenders, one rescue vessel, one repair ship, four oil-carriers, two storeships, the hospital ship, and three auxiliaries. To San Francisco for the May 28 dedication of the Golden Gate Bridge go the fleet's ten battleships, four aircraft carriers, 14 heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers, and four plane guard destroyers...