Word: golyer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point a man named De Golyer spoke...
Everette Lee De Golyer, 57, of Dallas, is perhaps the world's greatest oil geologist. Born in a Kansas homesteader's sod hut, he became the founder of a U.S. crude oil producer (Amerada Corp.), a director of Dallas' plush First National Bank, and the man whom the industry reverently calls "the father of geophysical exploration in the U.S." This man was the man whom Harold Ickes recently sent to survey U.S. oil properties in the Middle East, and who now attempted to explain to Americans why the U.S. is dabbling in Middle East...