Word: kenai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companies waited anxiously last week for word from Washington, D.C. that would start the greatest northern land rush since the Klondike gold strike. They had swarmed to Anchorage by the score this fall after Richfield Oil Corp. made Alaska's first big oil find in the nearby Kenai national game preserve (see map). So promising was the well (900 bbl. a day) that the companies are prepared to sink $100 million into the search for more. If they are just moderately successful, they will invest another $200 million in production, refining, transport and storage facilities. This would bring...
Conflict. When the Government in "1941 set aside 2,000,000 marshy acres of the Kenai Peninsula as a preserve for moose and other animals, no one cared because the land had no commercial value. But after Richfield's discovery, oilmen quickly filed for leases on nearly 12 million acres in and around Kenai, and close, to 5,000,000 acres farther north...
...Kenai, Alaska...