Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shore oil deposits in California at the turn of the century. Not much was done with this discovery until the end of the twenties. Large-scale development of the area began in 1933 with the perfection of directional drilling, which allowed the necessary machinery to be on land. By 1947, California was receiving nearly $4 million in annual royalties from its off-shore oil. The importance of Tideland Oil has greatly increased with the more recent prospecting in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Over 2 1/2 million acres of the Gulf have already been leased...
...affirmed in strong language that the States controlled the tidelands. In 1933, when prospectors applied to the Interior Department for federal leases to tideland oil deposits, Harold Ickes said, "Title to the soil under the ocean within the three-mile limit is in the State of California, and the land may not be appropriated except by authority of the State...
...Supreme Court issued its now famous 6-2 California Decision on June 23, 1947. Justice Hugo Black's majority decision said that the United States possesses "paramount rights in and full dominion and power over" the lands under consideration. The Court further stated that the "State of California has no title thereto or property interest therein." The reasoning behind the majority decision was that former decisions referred to tidelands, and the strict definition of tidelands is the land covered by the ebb and flow of the tides. No court ruling had ever been made covering the area between this tideland...
...important, however, that the Court did not say that the federal government owned this land. When Tom Clark later asked the Court to issue a degree declaring that the United States had proprietary interests, the Court refused and stuck by its doctrine of paramount rights...
Four American Landscapes (Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles, Werner Janssen conducting; Artist Records, 8 sides). Includes music by Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland and Henry F. Gilbert, but chiefly worthwhile for Charles Ives's remarkable, polytonically placid Housatonic at Stockbridge, from his Three Places in New Eng land (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948). Performance and recording: fair...