Word: gushers
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...Joiner, then a septuagenarian wildcatter, opened up the great East Texas oilfields in 1930 when he brought in his gusher, Daisy Bradford No. 3. Legend has it that soon afterward he lost oil leases worth $100 million in a three-day card game. "Anything you hear about the boom towns won't be an exaggeration," says H. L. Hunt, the multimillionaire, who remembers that holdup men were so common that he and his partners would always walk single file and 16 feet apart when they went to town. The reason, he explains, was that "the bandits wouldn...
More immediately troublesome to Union was the claim that it had seriously underreported the quantity spilled by the eleven-day gusher. Alan Allen, an engineer for General Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, meticulously plotted the spread and flow of the oil. Union had said that the crude escaped at the rate of 500 bbl. per day. By Allen's calculations, which he calls "ridiculously conservative," the ruptured well was spewing out at least...
...Chicago and the climate was not to Kelly's liking; Pittsburgh was no good because, in his estimation, it was not culturally ready. Suddenly, there it was: Dallas-hot climate, lots of loose money floating around, an unquenchable cultural thirst. Perfect. How could he fail to strike a gusher in the land of the big oilwell...
...showed none of the old relish for open combat when confronted with the steel industry's price increase or the transit workers' strike in New York City. But the familiar ebullience has not vanished entirely; it has simply been capped for the time being, like a gusher in a Texas oil field. With his three biggest messages of the year coming up in the next few weeks-those on the State of the Union, the Budget and the Economy-Lyndon Johnson has withdrawn for a needed period of consultation and concentration...
Unhappily, McNelly died at 33, and somehow the Rangers were never quite the same again. As the assignments became more routine-preventing prizefights, harassing fence cutters, jailing drunks in gusher towns-the quality of the men who performed them seemed to decline. By 1900 the force was notoriously corrupt, and during World War I the Rangers became little more than terrorists, a racist army supported by the state for the purpose of intimidating Mexicans on both sides of the border...