Word: gusher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freely passing out neat permits, at the rate of about 6,000 per year, which set inquisitive oil drills a-rattling on the public domain. Above most of these drills were "wildcatters," adventurous independent prospectors, sending their small assets down the drill holes on the chance of striking a gusher...
...divisions, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, were announcements of record profits, record employe insurance (see P. 34). Memorable, also, was the test of an oil well owned by the Skelly Oil Co. in the Hendrick Pool, Winkler County, Texas. Estimating its flow at 900 barrels an hour, officials hailed the gusher as the country's largest. Memorable was the rise of retail beef prices in Chicago, bringing porterhouse to 80 and 90? a pound, sirloins to 45 and 55?, rounds to 40 and 45?. Butchers foresaw, with alarm, a possible return of the wartime porterhouse price of $1 a pound...
...Ohio, by the late John Davey, their father and "the father of tree surgery." In addition, Martin L. Davey has found time to be Mayor of Kent, Ohio (1914-1918) and a member of every Congress since the 65th except the 67th, when few Ohio Democrats survived the Harding gusher...
Money From Home. On the road it was known as Coal Oil Jenny. Though occasionally it spurts a hopeful wisecrack, the full gusher of real drama is not forthcoming, wherefore it will probably not strike money from Broadway. The hero, played by the author, Frank Craven, masters gullible wealthy women for profit. One victim is a Pennsylvania factory girl, come to Manhattan to spend her $6,000 for a furtive smack of city life. The exploiter of women, duped by her reckless display, rushes into matrimony only to find he has caught a liability instead of an asset. And here...
...political toothache ever since the November elections and now you are applying every remedy to ease your suffering and your pain." Then he looked at Sen. David Reed of Pennsylvania and said, "Mellon's man Friday"; turned to lame duck Senator Harreld with something about a "tall gusher from Oklahoma...