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After talking with Colombian authorities and Spradley in the Riohacha hospital, Chief Rogers became convinced that his man might have been seeking something other than drill bits on his ill-fated flight. Said he: "My impression is that it was a marijuana run, a drug deal gone bad. Spradley is not the smartest person in the world." So he decided to head home, leaving Everitt to pick up the pieces...
...McLemore's "confession" of their intentions to smuggle pot, Spradley was dismayed. Said he: "I have had so dad-blamed many stories tossed at me, I've just about lost my faith in people." But McLemore later changed his story and agreed with Spradley's drill-bit explanation of the trip...
...some fairly promising areas of Oklahoma, Texas and, most important, the so-called Overthrust Belt in the foothills of the Rockies. Says Joseph Reid, president of The Superior Oil Co.: "The price for new gas and oil is such that people can afford to take more risks and drill deeper than when prices were cheaper. We are drilling in places where we previously would not have drilled. What was uneconomical is now economical...
Decontrol could lead some oil companies to drill merely for the sake of appearances. Opinion among Exxon's top management was divided on whether to invest what eventually became $460 million last year in a so-far futile search for oil in the Baltimore Canyon area of the Atlantic. Though preliminary seismic studies were not encouraging, the company went ahead anyway. The decision was made partly on the grounds that it could not be seen as declining to explore in an area so close to the petroleum-hungry Northeast...
Slot. Common euphemism for verb to kill. Others: take oiT, waste, drill...