Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State's prorated area. Exempt were "strippers" which produce less than 25 bbl. per day. Hardest hit by the order were the flush fields of Oklahoma. City (30 sq. mi.) and Greater Seminole (40 sq. mi.). With one pen squiggle Governor Murray had reduced the daily flow of Oklahoma oil from 425,000 bbl. to less than 150.000. To newsmen he declared: "The State's natural resources must be preserved and the price of oil must go to $1. Now don't ask me any more damned questions...
...three days 90% of the State's prorated wells had ceased to flow. Oil operators offered no resistance to the Murray order. Not a single shot was fired. So tame was the oil war that two young guardsmen were caught dozing under a Sinclair derrick. But despite martial law, economic law held its ground and the price of Oklahoma oil did not rise above...
...McDougald is board-chairman. In 1927 this company obtained permission from the Government to dredge a wide, 15 mi. canal, ostensibly as part of the proposed St. Lawrence Waterway, between Lake St. Francis and Lake St. Louis on the St. Lawrence River, the immediate purpose being to utilize the flow between the lakes for hydroelectric power. Projected cost of the power installations alone: $65,000,000. Projected horsepower on completion: 2,000,000. Initial developments provided for 500,000 h.p., contracts for the greater part of which have long been signed by Montreal Light, Heat & Power Co. and the Ontario...
...Gardiner charged that: 1) the canal would "deprive the people of Canada of a vast part of the national domain" by diverting the whole flow of the St. Lawrence; 2) the Government's permission had been illegally obtained; 3) Beauharnois officials had sought to corrupt the Government since then; 4) Senator McDougald, with no other than a promoter's interest in the concern, had, while a Senator of Canada, received from it large quantities of stock, worth some $30,000,000. Investigation had proved that Beauharnois had spent nearly $1,000,000 on the campaign funds of both...
...community and country. . . . The best index to its purposes and values are the principles it stands for . . . International peace . . . sobriety . . . character . . . righteousness and respect for law." Spontaneously, as the President finished his speech, the convention jumped to its feet, burst into the Doxology: "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow...