Word: gushers
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...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...
...Napoleon is extensive, found this interest very annoying. Texaco has had a tradition of down right individualism ever since it was founded by John Warne ("Bet-a-Million") Gates & friends in 1902 - a longshot bet on a little $3,000,000 concern which had grown out of a wildcat gusher in the Spindletop pool. Ralph Holmes went to Texaco at its founding. Grandson of an oilman, he was raised in Olean, N. Y. near the Pennsylvania oil fields, quit school to go into refining. For Texaco he helped develop the famed Holmes-Manley gasoline cracking process, helped push its distribution...
...young Pittsburgh law clerk Ernest Marland watched the founding of the Mellon fortune at sheriff's sales. In 1908 in Oklahoma he founded his own fortune when he struck a gusher on Willie-Cries-for-War's land. He built most of Ponca City, presented Oklahoma with Bryant Baker's heroic "Pioneer Woman" which stands at the entrance to his estate...
...Philadelphians who run and control Sun Oil are the Pews (not to be confused with Philadelphia's Pughs). Joseph Newton Pew founded the business in 1886, 27 years after the famed Titusville gusher came in, by buying natural gas properties. In 1894 the company purchased a refinery at Toledo. In the late 1890's when the Spindle Top field of South Texas was brought in. Sun acquired large leaseholds...