Word: burkburnett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas and Oklahoma, sweating harvesters drove their clanking combines in echelon, cutting wide swaths through the endless fields of golden wheat. As the winter wheat harvest hit its full stride last week, farmers were hard put to find a place for their bumper crop. In such railroad centers as Burkburnett, Tex., every available elevator was full to overflowing; shippers, caught by the shortage of railroad cars, were forced to dump the harvested grain in piles along the streets...
...most savory ingredient in the mixture. It leads Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, two wildcatters, on an exciting chase from Oklahoma and the tropics, to California, from poverty to wealth, back to poverty more times than you can count. The details of a raw, booming oil town, Burkburnett, are interesting and well-handled: the oil fever, the gushers, the fires, and above all the incurable wildcatter, always sure that his ground covers oil, always looking for a partner who will stake him. When MGM sets out to tell what has been done about oil in this country, they...
Boom Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the muddy hamlet of Burkburnett, Tex., and things start happening there when Big John MacMasters (Clark Gable) and his friend Square John Sand (Spencer Tracy) bring in a gusher with stolen equipment. Then Square John's girl (Claudette Colbert) comes West and Big John appropriates her. For 20 years Square John and Big John go on mooning over Claudette, bringing in gushers, getting rich and going broke like two big kids on a seesaw. When Big John begins to neglect Claudette for a saucy little baggage named Karen Vanmeer (Hedy Lamarr), Square John...