Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crazy about Oil. Turner, long indulgently regarded by friends as daft about oil, got his first encouragement in 1957. He persuaded Starr Gas Co. of Midland, Texas to come in and drill by procuring leases for it on 3,000 acres. The first well struck oil, but it was mixed with so much salt water that Starr Co. despaired of getting the oil out of the petroleum-bearing strata. Disgusted, Starr sold the well, equipment and 80 acres of surrounding lease to Turner for $2,500. Undiscouraged, Turner decided to try his own method. He thought an extremely powerful pump...
...Midland Park...
DEXTER BARTLETT Midland, Mich...
While U.S. health authorities were studying more economical use of Asian-influenza vaccine, Britain was taking its flu lying down. An estimated 60,000 children in England and Wales were out of school. In several Midland industrial towns, transport workers were sick and bus service had to be curtailed. In Sheffield a third of the telephone operators were out, and 100 postmen took to their beds, leaving university students to fill in for them. Two British submarines were pulled out of NATO maneuvers because their crews had been...
...BECK Midland, Mich...