Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Houston to Greece. Oilman O'Connor will be responsible for a worldwide $18 million expansion program at Dresser-everything from a new research center in Houston to a barite and bentonite (used in drilling muds) mining operation on the island of Mikomos, off the coast of Greece. The new...
Cooper's fellow Republican, however, had a tougher hill to climb. Former U.S. Congressman Thruston Ballard Morton, 49, also a Yaleman, astonished politicos in Kentucky's normally Democratic Third District (Louisville) by winning three successive terms to the House (1947-52), but he is virtually unknown outside the...
Miners will get a pay raise of $1.20 a day, bringing their basic daily wage to $21.45. Next April the industry will tack on another 80?, bringing the total package, with fringe benefits, to $2.40 more a day and miners' daily wages to $22.25. All told, it would add...
The Administration has opened Wildlife Refuges to oil drilling, while McKay was publicly announcing it would be forbidden. Appropriations for the Rural Electrification Administration and the Bonneville Power Administration were drastically cut. The Rogue River National Forest has been lumbered extensively under a phony mining contract. The Administration backed a...
Freeport agreed to develop the Grand isle Block 18 dome (estimated reserves: upwards of 30 million tons), which was discovered in 1954 by Humble Oil & Refining Co. while drilling for oil under 45 ft. of water* six miles off the Louisiana coast. The two companies will split evenly the after...