Word: field
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessmen who must move rapidly and warily in a trade that is bitterly competitive, determinedly rapacious. A man with a design idea and a batch of orders can have a Cadillac and an establishment on Riverside Drive in six months. Then, like a gust of wind in a wheat field, women's minds change and a hundred employers find themselves back at the cutting table...
With estimated reserves of 300 million barrels, the Redwater field already has 135 producing wells; new wells are being completed at the rate of 45 a month. Dozens of oil companies are in the field, the largest, Imperial Oil Ltd. of Canada, which is spending $500,000 on workers' housing alone...
...boom began at Leduc, 50 miles from Redwater, where the spouting of oil in February 1947 led to the proving of a field with an estimated reserve of 250 million barrels. Then, last Oct. 1, an Imperial crew of wildcatters struck oil on a Redwater farm...
...written with affection for the subject. But it has an art of its own that makes it rich and strange. The writer's humor can be bland and surreptitious, or broad and biting. Of Divver's punditry: "His views were not original, except in the field of military strategy and logistics...
...format when Fawcett did. Thereupon the bottom dropped out of Macfadden's market: after netting $224,883 in the first quarter of 1949, it reported a second-quarter loss of $11,635. Admitted Macfadden's Dwight Yellen: "No doubt about it-the confession comics have hurt our field...