Word: burkburnett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said he: "If you wear that uniform when we go around to talk to people, they'll want to talk about the war. We aren't talking about anything but oil." Murchison set off for Wichita Falls, where the big play was in an extension of the Burkburnett Field. He found it full of gamblers, promoters, oilmen and rumors. It was his job to separate the oil from the rumors, then snap up leases...
Jackpots. After Spindletop, in the superlatives of the oilfields, came a jillion jackpots-roaring booms at Electra, Ranger, Burkburnett, Desdemona and Mexia proved that oil was where you found it. The automobile age created a rising demand, and after the Lucas No. 1, Texas wildcatters never stopped their probing in the earth's baffling substrata. Glenn McCarthy, a man with a lust for money and fame, became one of them...