Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cruel Hoax." Ratliff and his committee, scurrying around in a hunt for outside capital, were forced to do most of their fund-raising after the paper was put to bed. During working hours, Ratliff himself dug up a series of beats on a local income-tax scandal that resulted in an indictment and a jail sentence for a Cincinnati doctor, Sidney Lange (TIME, April 21). But he was less successful with his own financing case...
Filipowski's students will hold an exhibition of their year's work in Hunt Hall beginning Friday, June 6 and extending to the 19th...
Since then, lease prices have risen from 10? an acre to as high as $235. Such famed wildcatters as Texas' H. L. Hunt, often called "the richest oilman in the world," and Hugh Roy Cullen hustled in to get in on the play. Centers of the drilling, e.g., Glendive, Mont, and Williston, N.D., burst at the seams...
...years, Texaco, Ohio Oil and Bay Petroleum have all put up new office buildings in Denver. Big new reserves have been turned up in Wyoming's Pow der River and Big Horn basins. Promising finds are being developed in the Ute country of adjoining Utah, where the hunt for oil had once been abandoned. But Salt Lake's determined Wildcatter J. L. (Mike) Dougan kept on trying, despite a heartbreaking series of dry holes. Finally, after two years, he brought in Utah's first commercial well. But that wasn't the end of his heartbreak...
...gravity-meters and perfected seismograph techniques now enable prospectors to pinpoint formations which could contain oil. But to find out whether oil is there, no substitute has been found for the old-fashioned gamble of sinking a drill. Thanks to the tenacity of such gamblers as Jacobsen, Hunt and countless independent wildcatters, the industry is now finding it almost everywhere...