Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel of the Williston Basin area, Miller spent several days in North Dakota last month. The first person he met, after checking into the Plainsman Hotel in Williston, was a Texan who said he was "looking over a few farms to pick up a lease or two." When he learned that Miller was with TIME, he said: "You fellows wrote me up once." The Texan, it turned out, was Dallas Insuranceman Robert Baxter, who had made this exultant boast in mid-1948: "This is a great world, and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas...
Career: Just out of law school, he ran for Dakota (Minn.) county attorney in 1929, was laid low by tuberculosis, campaigned from a sanatorium, won the election. He was fully recovered by the time he took office in 1930, served two four-year terms. In 1938, at 31, he was elected governor of Minnesota, was re-elected twice. In four years he turned a $39 million deficit into a $3,000,000 surplus, cut yearly expenses from $105 million to $92 million, slashed the payroll from 17,000 to 10,000, cut the property tax almost 50%, created...
Last week Hunter Jacobsen was busy, as usual, indulging his passion. In Oklahoma, he was drilling four wells; in California, three; in Louisiana, one; in New Mexico, nine; and in Canada, four. He was busiest of all in North Dakota. There, he was drilling 20 wells. For in North Dakota's Williston Basin, Jacobsen has made his biggest strike. He has found many a new oilfield in the past. But in North Dakota he found something far bigger. Says he: "The Williston Basin is not just one oilfield. It is an oil province...
...subsidiary of Standard Oil (N.J.) which operates Talara, is a major Sechura bidder. Other foreign applicants: Peruvian Gulf, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corp.; Richmond Petroleum, subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California; Conorada, jointly owned by Continental Oil, Ohio Oil and Amerada Petroleum Corp., principal wildcatter in North Dakota's new and gushing Williston Basin. All of these except Peruvian Gulf have asked for both exploration and exploitation concessions, indicating that they think the oil is there and are ready to lay out considerable sums right away...
...South Dakota: Sigurd Anderson...