Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ramsay MacDonald; by Mrs. Edith Katherine MacDonald; in London. Grounds: misconduct. Divorced. Charles Henry Huberich, 59, Toledo-born scholar of international law; by Nina Mdivani Huberich, sister of the celebrated Georgian "Princes" David, the late Serge and Alexis Mdivani; in The Hague. Died. Harry Palmerston Williams, 46, son of Louisiana's late Lumber Tycoon Frank B. Williams, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, speed-plane builder associated with the late pilot "Jimmy" Wedell (Wedell-Williams); in an airplane crash; at Baton Rouge, La. Died. Commander Elmer F. Stone, U. S. N., 49, co-pilot of the seaplane...
...American taste. Organized U. S. artists had boycotted it because the Municipal Art Committee refused to pay artists a rental fee of 1% per month of each painting's value. Selection of paintings had been left to Governors. So scant was official interest in New Hampshire and Louisiana that no pictures were chosen at all from these States. First National had only three abstractions, a few surrealisms, countless landscapes, mostly of each artist's native town, plain, mountain, sierra, river, lake or desert. Overwhelming majority of the artists were entirely unknown, uninspired, surprisingly competent. A bad start were...
Importance of the Rodessa oil field to Kansas City Southern remained primarily a matter of railroading. Since the first well was brought in last July, K. C. S. business in northern Louisiana has increased thousands of dollars a month. Big U. S. oil companies have been rushing in men and equipment, changing the small town of Rodessa from a sleepy whistle-stop to a booming paradise for real estate swappers. A townsite lot in Rodessa lately sold for $30,000 cash. Population has climbed from 135 to 4,000. Baptist Preacher John W. Wynn of Shreveport came out of retirement...
...mile and a half to the northeast proved that the Rodessa field, at this depth, extended over a respectable area. Since then more than 100 new wells have shown Rodessa's extent to be at least 10,000 acres in a narrow band lying diagonally across Louisiana's northwest corner from Arkansans on the north to Texas onthe west, with a potential production of about 200,000,000 barrels of oil. Daily production, held down by proration, is now approaching 50,000 barrels...
Diggest holder in the field is still United GAs. Standard Oil of Louisiana has bought 3,000 acres at a reported price of $10,000,000, and Gulf Oil is reputedly dickering for half of that for $6,000,000. Other companies with large acreage include Texas Corp., Philips Petroleum, American Liberty Oil Co., Cities Service's Arkansas Natural Gas, Lion Oil Refining Co. and Pelican...