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Rothbart got a shock. Instead of the promised "palatial residence," he and his wife were ushered into a dilapidated shack. Operations at the well were fenced in and guarded by men with shotguns. When Rothbart finally was allowed in, what he saw worried him even more. The drill cores brought up from some 17,000 ft. were not soft, oily limestone but dry, hard rock. After Vasen refused to have a laboratory analysis made of the cores, the Rothbarts asked for their money back. When they did not get it, they went...
...draft the oil bill, the Turkish government hired another Washington lawyer, Max Ball, an oil specialist who helped write Israel's oil legislation. The bill permits foreign private oil companies to drill in Turkey under 50-year leases, pay the Turkish government only a modest royalty on the oil and gas produced, until they recoup their investment. After that, the company and the government split the net profits. An important feature: instead of granting a nationwide concession to a single company or syndicate, the bill guarantees competition by keeping the door open to newcomers, and by limiting the area...
Shell wants to go deeper and drill other wells around Eagle Springs' perimeter before it claims a big field. But Nevada was already in the grip of an oil fever. By week's end, some 2,000,000 acres had been filed on, bringing more than $1,000,000 into Reno's land office...
...love turns to hate. As a new bride, Mrs. Albany had been shocked to discover that her husband had married her only to give his first wife's children a mother; the springs of her love clogged. Her home became a barracks, her children malingering recruits, herself a drill sergeant...
...Mexico City corn pollen fossils were found in drill cores studied by Dr. Paul Sears of Yale and Mrs. Kathryn Clisby of Oberlin College. The Bat Cave corn was found by Herbert Dick, then of Colorado State Museum...