Word: elk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week Columnist Pearson printed a list of his stories which had been denied, "but turned out true." Among them: his beats on the General Patton soldier-slapping (TIME, Dec. 6), the Navy's Elk Hills oil deal (TIME, July 5). † He also has felt Presidential censure, on his "moronic little king" broadcast...
Harrison Spangler has few close friends and few whole-souled enemies. A man of determined moderation, his unexceptional life has not even been exceptionally dull. A congenital Republican, he is also an Elk, a Mason, a Presbyterian, a Sigma Nu. He smokes cigarets absently, drinks Scotch socially, golfs casually...
...Ohio Oil, the big U.S. oil companies swarmed over Polecat Bench. Last August Phillips Petroleum and Standard of Indiana's Stanolind paid the U.S. Government $1.407,500 for drilling rights on 262½acres of Federal land in Elk Basin-the highest price ever bid for the privilege of putting a drill bit into the ground. Last month Carter Oil, subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, bought out Denver's Minnelusa Oil Corp., the original discoverer of the Tensleep sands...
...news at Elk Basin last week was Harold Ickes. The Basin's swelling stream of oil has been pinched down to 14,000 bbl. a day for lack of adequate pipelines. The lines were approved by WPB, but frantically opposed by local truckers. Last week Oil Czar Ickes stepped into the fracas, recommended immediate construction of two new pipelines (one to Billings and Laurel refineries in Montana, the other to connect with Stanolind's big line to Salt Lake). When the new lines are pushed through next year, Nettie's homestead will really begin...
...confused with California's Elk Hills Field...