Word: casper
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...years ago in County Cork, Ireland. Governor Emerson of Wyoming appointed him to the Warren vacancy. Since 1917 he has been Wyoming's Republican National Committeeman. Like his predecessor a wealthy sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe...
TIME reported the election of Charles Edwin Winter, Republican oilman, jurist, Shriner, rhymster, of Casper, Wyoming (near famed Teapot Dome and Salt...
...from Wyoming, Charles Edwin Winter, used to be a Representative (1923-27). Before that he was an oilman and a judge. His home is at Casper, near famed Teapot Dome and Salt Creek. He is a Shriner. But Senators like Borah and Johnson have taught Washington to view with some circumspection any statesman from the great open spaces who has risen to Senatorial rank...
Lease. Besides the Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming, whilom Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall leased to Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair a tract adjacent to Teapot Dome on the north, in the field known as Salt Creek. Some 42 miles north of Casper, Wyo., the Salt Creek field is bigger than Teapot Dome. Its 2,000 wells produce some 38,000 bbls. per day, about 19 times the output of the 63 wells in Teapot Dome...
...visited Casper, Wyo., hard by the famed Teapot Dome and Salt Creek oil reserves. In cutaway and striped trousers, he sat down for "chow" with oil-drillers in a mess hall...