Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after Dunkirk, as a bright Beaverboy of 27, Mike Foot helped write Guilty Men, an indictment of the Chamberlain government (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). The Beaver pretended not to notice. But when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...
...Mike Foot, who replaced Managing Editor Jon Kimche, hopes to settle it favorably. As "joint editor" with Mrs. Evelyn Anderson, a veteran Tribune wheelhorse, Foot hopes to spice up the critical columns, open up the pages to more young hopefuls. He also wants to build up Tribune's lively, intelligent, often acidulous handling of U.S. affairs. And he is anxious to lift what he calls the iron curtain between the U.S. and British labor movements...
...almost pure gasoline), and the depth of the oil-saturated strata (about 1,700 ft., the deepest of its kind ever found), caused experts to guess that the pool may contain a minimum of 50 million barrels, a maximum of 600 million barrels. In honor of Old Mike, the area was named Benedum Field...
...Mike's Memorial. Not till more wells are drilled will the size of the new pool be known. But the discovery well was pouring out 500 barrels a day, the maximum under Texas regulations...
...rough, tough Mike Benedum, "greatest wildcatter in the world," wanted just one more big strike. His Plymouth Oil Co. had leased 800 acres in desolate Upton County in western Texas and started to drill for oil. Plymouth drilled down 10,000 ft. and lost $1,000,000 before it quit. That...