Word: gusher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diamond Glenn" now has 300 employes, figures his staff of engineers, geologists, drillers, roughnecks, are the best in the business. Month ago he announced his tenth discovery. Out on Bailey's Prairie, in Brazoria County, his latest gusher came in. One of the deepest low-gravity oil producers on the Coast, it was the centre of a 10,000-acre tract, all under McCarthy lease. It looked as though the Wildcat King had joined the semi-majors...
...Crazy became a big-time gusher. From the charred remains of the first Crazy Hotel sprang up-&-coming Crazy Water Co., with capital stock of $400,000, an $800,000 mortgage. It 1) rebuilt the hotel, 2) bottled the water, 3) produced Crazy Water Crystals by evaporating the water. Whereas the old Crazy Hotel, a mere therapeutic resort, had sold health on a cash-&-carry basis, Crazy Water Co. put it on drugstore shelves all over the U. S. Today its debt is down to $150,000, its physical assets...
Boom Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the muddy hamlet of Burkburnett, Tex., and things start happening there when Big John MacMasters (Clark Gable) and his friend Square John Sand (Spencer Tracy) bring in a gusher with stolen equipment. Then Square John's girl (Claudette Colbert) comes West and Big John appropriates her. For 20 years Square John and Big John go on mooning over Claudette, bringing in gushers, getting rich and going broke like two big kids on a seesaw. When Big John begins to neglect Claudette for a saucy little baggage named Karen Vanmeer (Hedy Lamarr), Square John...