Word: gushers
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Edwin Drake launched the petroleum age in 1859, when he drilled 69½ ft. into the ground along Oil Creek, near Titusville, Pa., and hit history's first oil gusher. Now, after more than a half-century of decline, the oil-and gasfields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and New York are gurgling anew. The fields are part of what geologists call the Eastern Overthrust Belt, a corridor of convoluted limestone, sand and shale that stretches 1,200 miles along the slopes of America's Appalachian Mountains, from the Adirondacks to Alabama...
...drilling around a dome near Beaumont, Texas, produced a gusher of unprecedented size. It was called Spindletop and gave birth to the modern petroleum industry. Since then, salt domes in the Gulf States have helped point the way to more than 6 billion...
...Dynasty, imitation is the sincerest form of flatulence. As Oil Mogul Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) struggles to secure control of his empire and the fidelity of his working-class bride (Linda Evans), heavy breathing can be heard -the anxious effort of writers and actors to hit a Texas-size gusher. So far, though, Dynasty is all dry wells...
Bottled by San Francisco's Gusher Oil Co., the creation of a former restaurateur named David Collins, the premium petroleums are available for spot orders at fashionable department stores across the country at $8 a fifth, vs. roughly two bits for a fifth of a gallon of gasoline, minus the packaging. Though the bouquet leaves much to be desired, the body and rich color are admirable. A sound addition to cellar or garage...
...gusher for geologists