Word: martially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...control of which was sold in 1919 to Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey for $16,580,000. It was to save the price of oil that Governor Sterling last month called a special legislative session, drove through a new proration act, closed the gushing East Texas field by martial law, drove up the price of oil from 10¢ to 68¢ the barrel (TIME, Aug. 24). Cotton planters openly wondered why he would not take the whip hand and do as much for them. Their only explanation was that, after all, he is an oil, not a cotton...
...airplane bearing tear-gas bombs zoomed down upon small Jonesboro, Ark. one day last week. The National Guard stood ready with machine guns and fixed bayonets. Would there be martial law? Arkansas' Governor Harvey Parnell sent ten State Highway policemen. Local police were practically of no use; they wanted to take sides and get in the battle themselves. For of Jonesboro's 10,000-odd inhabitants, fully 7,000 were enjoying a breath-taking series of revival-meetings, near-riots, brawls and courtroom scenes...
Sputtering, outraged, Mayor Bosler sent a telegram to the Governor, asking for troops. Capt. Harry E. Eldridge of the R. O. T. C. of the State Agricultural College at Jonesboro and Blytheville National Guard mustered 75 guardsmen, telegraphed the Governor: "Thousands of lives are endangered. . . . Declare martial law now or shoot down 1,000 church members with machine guns." The Governor sent his personal secretary. Came 150 more National Guardsmen...
...again flowed last week from some 1,800 wells in the great sprawling East Texas field. It did not gush immoderately but poured out in a legally limited stream. After 19 days Governor Sterling lifted martial law in four counties to allow the State Railroad Commission to apply a new proration order to an area that almost ruined mid-continent fields with low prices (TIME, Aug 31 et ante). Each East Texas well was allowed to run off not more than 225 bbl. per day.* The Commission's order was expected to cut in half the field...
...Before martial law, East Texas oil was selling for 10? per bbl. As operations resumed last week the posted price...