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Word: minnelusa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government $1.407,500 for drilling rights on 262½acres of Federal land in Elk Basin-the highest price ever bid for the privilege of putting a drill bit into the ground. Last month Carter Oil, subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, bought out Denver's Minnelusa Oil Corp., the original discoverer of the Tensleep sands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Nettie's Homestead | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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