Word: gushers
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...This gusher of war work has boosted Continental sales and profits to record peaks. Last year the company cleared $3,232,000 on sales of $31,565,000. Because the company is a prime Air Corps contractor, this year's figures are secret. One clue: because skyrocketing production has greatly reduced unit costs, the Army last March was able to chop $40,000,000 off the company's backlog by merely shaving prices...
...were formed, there prospered a hard-shelled order of protozoa, the Foraminifera, which were sometimes two inches but usually less than a millimeter across. Micropaleontologists watch for these and do not overlook the fragmentary remains of such creatures as worms, starfish, sea urchins, etc. When oilmen strike a wildcat gusher, they sometimes spend from $1,000 to $2,500 for an analysis of the microfossils which characterize it, so that finding another such well will depend less on luck...
...which the U. S. has not embargoed against Japan is oil. In the past Japan has bought about 75% of her oil from the U. S.; in the future she may get none. Last week Japan's eagerness to find other sources for oil before the U. S. gusher goes dry gave rise to two mysterious stories...
...fight between Standard Oil and the independents was hottest. Her father and brother were oil men whom Rockefeller had pushed to the wall. Miss Tarbell proved a terrible avenger. Her History of the Standard Oil Company, a perfervid, superbly documented indictment of oil-trust machinations, brought in a gusher of popular ill will which still bubbles up from time to time in anti-Rockefeller sentiment...
...Diamond Glenn" now has 300 employes, figures his staff of engineers, geologists, drillers, roughnecks, are the best in the business. Month ago he announced his tenth discovery. Out on Bailey's Prairie, in Brazoria County, his latest gusher came in. One of the deepest low-gravity oil producers on the Coast, it was the centre of a 10,000-acre tract, all under McCarthy lease. It looked as though the Wildcat King had joined the semi-majors...