Word: gusher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iranians had some reason for their confidence. Near Qum last August government oil drillers brought in a gusher that spewed forth 80,000 bbl. of oil a day. Before the well could be brought under control by U.S. Expert Myron Kinley (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953), more than 5,000,000 bbl. of oil flowed in a black river into a depression in the desert floor, made a lake of oil half a mile across...
Front-Runner. The state-owned National Iranian Oil Co. is sinking another well near the sealed-off gusher, plans to put down five more during the next 18 months to outline the field. The new holes will tell whether Iran struck an isolated pocket of oil under extremely high pressure or whether Qum is one huge continuous field. If it is the field that Iranians-and some U.S. oilmen-believe it is, then it will take enormous amounts of cash and special know-how, more than the Iranians possess, to control the mighty gas pressures and extract...
...feel sorry for me." Perle was right, but for the wrong reasons. She had hoped to de-emphasize her reputation as a gay social lioness. Instead, in her first TV biography, The Hostess with the Mostes', Party Girl Perle was caught in a clicheé-ridden gusher that coated with crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle's hoked-up TV life: her eighth birthday party to which no one came ("I'll show them. When...
CinemaScope camera through the world's gaudiest gambling hell, he undergoes seven acts of vaudeville, two complete ballets, about 15 casinos, several thousand slot machines and an oil gusher-not to overlook Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Frank Sinatra, Lena Home, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Frankie Laine, Cara Williams, Jerry Colonna, Agnes Moorehead. Sammy Davis Jr., the Four Aces, the Slate Brothers, Peter Lorre, and something that looks suspiciously like a seven-year-old geisha girl...
...expanded Italy's production of methane to almost 100 times the prewar total, a noteworthy achievement. But as sn oil producer, E.N.I, has been a bungling flop. Where it has bored only dry holes and left, private explorers later found oil; so far, E.N.I, has raised only one gusher-in the promising Abruzzi area-and that by edging up close and spudding into a pool found months before by a private U.S.-Italian company...