Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a $13,000,000 initial outlay he rebuilt the road from the ground up, put down heavy rails, built new stations, bought comfortable coaches, created an esprit de corps among employes, nine out of ten of whom bought company stock. He reduced the traveling time between...
...general ratio of gas waste to oil production could be specified; instead, the law provided that waste should be limited to a "reasonable amount" to be determined in each case by State Oil and Gas Supervisor R. D. Bush. Waste can be limited by "recycling" the gas into the ground, thereby sustaining the pressure and guaranteeing a long, steady but comparatively slow flow of oil; by capturing the gas and extracting its casing head gasoline contents; by selling the gas to public utility companies. Large companies, like Standard Oil Co. of California, have a number of years engaged in "recycling...
...operator whose large underground oil reserves might be diminished through lack of gas pressure, this is an ideal arrangement; but to the little producer who wants to get his oil just as fast as the gas will push it out of the ground in order to pay off his costs and begin to make money, it seems dubious. At any rate, little operators met in Los Angeles last week, formed the Association of Independent Operators, tried to make up their minds whether to stake everything on proving the conservation law unconstitutional or to sign the contracts sent...
...these optimistic predictions, some of the debenture and stockholders who had not agreed to the proposed re-organization hinted that the main trouble lay not in the agricultural conditions but the management. Through a spokesman they said, "We propose to organize a committee to resist the receivership on the ground that such receivership would represent a retention of control and extension of influence by the same group responsible for this magnificent ruin. . . . The receiver proposed (John R. Simpson, president of Cuba Cane, Vice President and Director of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp.) is not qualified as he is not a sugar...
Outside the post a great many of us lay on the ground in the dark. They carried wounded in and brought them out. I could see the light come out from the dressing station when the curtain opened and they brought someone in or out. The dead were off to one side. The doctors were working with their sleeves up to their shoulders and were red as butchers. There were not enough stretchers. Some of the wounded were noisy but most were quiet. The wind blew the leaves in the bower over the door of the dressing station...