Word: gusher
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Excitement at Abner's. Alabama had never thought of itself as big oil country until last January, when Standard of New Jersey's subsidiary, Humble Oil, brought in the state's first gusher on the cotton farm of Allen Moye. In short order, two other producing wells were brought in nearby. Last fortnight the fourth came in on L. G. Crosby's farm. Last week land could not be bought in the area for any price. There is talk that the new pool may reach far into Georgia on the east and Florida on the south...
...drilling. For 18 days, Moye, his wife and four children watched as the Humble bits sank a full mile below the cotton fields without striking anything. Then, under the glare of the night lights, at 5,945 ft., the drills came up smudged black with oil. Next morning, a gusher shot 100 ft. into the air, the first flowing well in Alabama's history...
...first two wells were flops. Last year, as he reached the end of his resources, he brought in a gusher. As he started drilling new wells, other companies, including Phillips and Stanolind, rushed to the Worland area, sank eleven wells of their own to cash in on Bonanza's bonanza...
...last days at school, a simple act of kindness changes The Crock's life. A pupil (Brian Smith) astonishes him by presenting a parting gift, a copy of the Agamemnon in the Robert Browning translation. This gesture pierces The Crock's outer crust and strikes an emotional gusher. With the help of Rattigan's facile plotting, it leads to the wife's comeuppance at the hands of her lover and, finally, to a rebellious upsurge of self-respect in The Crock...
...years. At twelve, he was working in a candy store for $3 a week, at 17, was running a small cotton business. From there, he drifted into prospecting for oil, and after ten years of wildcatting, finally struck it rich. At Blue Ridge, outside of Houston, he hit a gusher. After that, he lost track of how many millions...