Word: elk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was oil around Polecat Bench all right: the Wyoming-Montana Elk Basin Field, that was first opened up by Ohio Oil in 1915, has produced some oil and gas every year since. Oldtimers say the gassers used to "roar so damn much you couldn't talk to your wife in bed without yelling." But Nettie never struck enough to keep body & soul together: in 1935, hounded by creditors, she gave up and disappeared from Elk Basin.* No one knows what became of her, but if she could see her homestead today she would feel like shooting herself with...
...week he got the Board to order the trial of a c.o. for incompetence. The accused: Edward O. Schweitzer, science teacher at Ada Merritt Junior High, 35-year-old Scoutmaster and Y.M.C.A. club leader of Coral Gables. Heavyset, aggressive Terry, a veteran of World War I, American Legionnaire, Mason, Elk and lawyer, argued that Schweitzer, who has been teaching for more than a decade, has "unfitted himself as a teacher by his beliefs" about pacifism...
Navy's rich, ill-famed Elk Hills oil reserves has raised the hair of Congress for the past fortnight. Many a Congressman, suddenly made aware of the contract which Navy Secretary Frank Knox signed last November with Standard Oil of California to pump oil from Elk Hills, mumbled of Teapot Dome. By last week, two House committees, Naval Affairs and Public Lands, were probing the contract, which was abrogated after the Justice Department found it "illegal and invalid." They had failed to uncover any skulduggery...
...Yellowstone Park's two elk herds, thinned by 7,230 during the present winter, are still a problem. Wyoming's rising moose population is mooching down on civilization in search of food. One militant moose recently held a group of children imprisoned in a schoolhouse for hours; three other moose had to be shot by a rural mail carrier before they would give him right...
...game hunters had better luck last week. Many areas in Western States are overrun with deer and elk. Game commissions, plainly worried about mounting damages to ranchers for destroyed haystacks, are talking about an added open season, an all-doe season or just plain market-hunting...