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Brazil's inflation-harried, dollar-starved government heard good news last week from the jungle interior. Near the spot where the Madeira River flows into the Amazon, oil hunters brought in a high-grade gusher, the first oil ever found in Brazil outside the coastal state of Bahia. The oil spurted 150 feet, and made Brazilians gush just as effusively. Said Rio's Correio da Manhá: "Glad tidings! The greatest hope for Brazil's recovery...
...sank two more, found more oil, and started his fourth well. At dawn on New Year's Day, after playing trumpet with Horace Heidt's band in Los Angeles, Crawford hustled to the drilling site. He arrived in time to see his drillers bring in a gusher from a new formation-and start a rush of oilmen to Huntington Beach...
...wells were already in operation or being drilled in Crawford's new field. Crawford himself, though he had ten producing wells and was drilling four more, had more important things to do than stay around Huntington Beach. On his 24th birthday, a month ago, he brought in a gusher seven miles to the north, is now developing what he thinks is an even bigger field...
Success in the Williston Basin is far from Amerada's sole claim to fame, though it has proved so exciting to Wall Street that stocks only vaguely associated with Williston have spurted like a new gusher. Three months ago Amerada brought in a new discovery well in Alberta's Peace River area which Jacobsen says may have great possibilities. Cautiously, he says it is too early to estimate the size of the new find, and adds that the Peace River area "may prove to be a pain in the neck or something really big." And only two weeks...
...newest novelists to arrive on the Texas landscape is Madison Cooper of Waco-and he has come in like an oil well and come in big. Novelist Cooper is crude, all right, and he is such a wasteful gusher that it seems scarcely worth while capping the flow between the covers of a book; but he spews out so much of the rich stuff that he is very likely to flood the U.S. book market in the weeks before Christmas-if he doesn't scare most of the customers on to higher ground...