Word: gasman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mosser's find is one of the biggest in a widespread treasure hunt that is turning many an oilman into a gasman. Even after World War II, oilmen were burning off natural gas as a waste that came up with the oil. Now, so many cities are switching to natural gas-and oil is in such surplus-that the market has burgeoned, put a premium on gas discoveries. Mosser now has more than 18 oil and gas rigs drilling, brought in more than a dozen wells. He has two other promising fields that may well yield another trillion cubic...
...Charles Addams kind of jolly ghoulishness, and partly a personal and highly disturbing hostility toward all the world. No one's flesh crawled when Jack Benny carried on a running gag about a bear named Carmichael that he kept in the cellar and that had eaten the gasman when he came to read the meter. The novelty and jolt of the sickniks is that their gags ("I hit one of those things in the street-what do you call it, a kid?") come so close to real horror and brutality that audiences wince even as they laugh...
Even at Illinois' College of Medicine, Dr. Meduna's theory and practice are not yet generally accepted. Sniffed Colleague Franz Alexander: "Meduna is merely choking, instead of shocking, his patients back to health." But if Gasman Meduna's theory pans out, Psychoanalyst Alexander may be out of business...