Word: gush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where oil is struck, there is a boom. Where there is a boom there is easy money and to it flock swindlers, 'leggers, dope-sellers, gamblers, prostitutes and pimps. In eastern Texas last month oil began to gush out of Rusk and Gregg Counties (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week in Gregg County, the town of Kilgore and the nearby tent-town of "Little Juarez" had grown so rowdy, so full of wastrels and misconduct, that the Texas Rangers had to take a hand. Five Rangers came up from the Rio Grande, five more converged on Kilgore from other parts...
...operator. And last week they liked him less than ever. Dear to oilmen is curtailment. They dis agree on how to effect it and when, but as a principle it is their credo. No curtailer, it seems, is Oilman Julian. He has defied the rule, let his oil wells gush richly. Last week the Attorney General threatened and abandoned a plan to put his company into receivership to force compliance with the state proration order. Said Mr. Julian: "It's the bunk." On the surface last week it seemed his victory. For the list of 73 officials...