Word: gushers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University was called a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co., was twitted in an apocryphal alma mater song: "Praise John, from whom oil blessings flow." Last week University of Chicago struck oil on a tract of land it owns in Olney, Ill,* and began to collect royalties on a gusher producing 450 barrels a day (at current prices...
Four years ago a poetic gusher called Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow, which consisted of 703 sonnets written in eleven months, called attention to a new U. S. poet: a six-foot, 207-lb., 30-year-old Kentucky hillbilly named Jesse Stuart. In those poems, as in his book of stories that followed two years later (Head o' W-Hollow), Jesse Stuart wrote prolifically, ingenuously, sometimes amazingly well about his mountain kinsfolk, neighbors and scenery...
...bring in an oil well. Alf Landon, as an experienced oilman and politician, felt pretty sure the nomination was there. He knew his field boss, John Hamilton, was a crackerjack and would make no mistakes. Whether it proved to be just an average political well or a magnificent gusher did not matter an awful lot. Main thing was to get into pay sand and bring it into actual production. Until that was done, Alf Landon knew it was unlucky as well as unwise to do much talking...
...fast as it enters. At first there was some disruption of the water system in the entry, but that was speedily remedied. Yet, despite this happy situation, the College authorities yesterday called in the assistance of the Cambridge Water Department to help uncover the still unknown source of the gusher...
...short of oil under what later became another flush and fabulous pool, the Seminole. But he made a strike here & there, and by 1927 was drilling in East Texas in an area which geologists unanimously condemned as bone dry. On Oct. 4, 1930 he brought in a gusher. Today the Texas Railroad Commission, which attempts to control the flood, estimates that if each & every one of the 14,000 wells in the East Texas Field were opened wide for one hour, they would produce more oil than the whole U. S. could consume in five days. Dad Joiner sold part...