Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welcome Invasion. Some diehard conservatives look balefully on all this progress. Caught in a midtown traffic jam one day, Geologist Emmet Tatum, a Houston resident for 17 years, cried: "Progress, hell! I wish every one of the bustling so-and-so's would go back where they came from...
...just getting interested in. Gene also got interested. He spent a year after graduation studying geology at the University of Texas and then a hitch as a corporal in the U.S. Signal Corps in World War I. He caught the eye of Wallace Pratt, then Standard's top geologist, who hired Gene to work fin its subsidiary, Humble Oil Co. There Holman again impressed the right person-William Stamps Parish, Humble's president. In a short time he was made boss of Humble's Shreveport office. When Holman asked for "instructions," Parish waved a hand and said...
Drill the Wells. He did. He "ran things" so well that Parish made him Humble's chief geologist in 1926, with a free hand to "buy anything you want." It was the chance of a lifetime-if Gene knew his geology well enough to lease the right land. He did-and from this land came oil that helped make Humble the biggest single producer of crude...
...left Cambridge and is heading for Beaumont, Texas, where the expedition will set sail on January 15. Latady is taking the frigid trip in the capacity of aerial photographer, while his colleague, Robert H. T. Dodson '47, a former vice-president of the mountaineers, will be the trip's geologist...
Journalistic bitters of an unquotable professor were mixed with the sweetness of a challenge after an eminent geologist, whom the indiscreet would not identify, told the following tale...