Word: conneaut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry, which has moved its exploration steadily westward, came news last week that sent wildcatters racing back East. Near Conneaut, Ohio, only 50 miles from the first U.S. well at Titusville, Pa., a rich well came in in an area everyone thought was exhausted. The flow: an initial 6,720 bbl. daily v. an average ½ bbl. daily for the only remaining wells near by. The name of the man responsible for the strike was no surprise. He is old Mike Benedum, 88, the king of the wildcatters and a man who says proudly: "I have unloosed more oil than...
...second super toll road in Ohio. With "disappointing" revenues on seven-month-old turnpike No. 1, running across state, Wall Street Securities Underwriters Blyth & Co. have told Ohio Turnpike Commission that the "time is not propitious" to finance $385 million road running 301 miles northeast-southwest from Conneaut to Cincinnati...
This is also the brightest excuse for a heavyweight training camp since Max Schmeling got ready for Young Stribling in the summer of 1931 right in the middle of an undertakers' convention at Conneaut Lake Park, Pa. Archie seems interested in everything but boxing. He does not tire of driving through town showing off his blue yachting cap ("It lends an impression that you own a yacht"), and his red Ford Thunderbird ("I think a sport should have a sport...
Foreclosure. In Conneaut, Ohio, a stranger who was turned down for a loan by the Lake Erie Finance Co. whipped out a pistol, grabbed $200 and announced: "I need the money, and I will take it anyway...