Word: oil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oil can with a rubber spout (undentable, non-clogging...
...Lett is able to reconcile these two factors, he will have made a momentous check on the existing formulas, which are so vitally important commercially in oil prospecting and scientifically in interpreting surface layers of earth from local New England earthquakes...
Thanks to the generosity of a friend of geology at Harvard that department has at its disposal a 6000 foot oil well near Charleston. Although the well never yielded any oil, it may now be the means of bringing forth something far more important than oil. It may produce a far-reaching, scientific discovery, which will profoundly influence oil prospecting and the recording of earthquakes...
...Usually," said Lett in an interview yesterday, "oil wells are used commercially or are otherwise made unfit for scientific study. This is the chance of a lifetime...
Nurseryman Zielsdorf was apprised of his good fortune by "The Court of Missing Heirs," a bright radio idea of Skelly Oil Co. Aimed by Skelly Oil point-blank at that immense and sanguine section of the U. S. public which succumbs to bank night and sweepstakes tickets and dreams of unforeseen inheritances, the Court of Missing Heirs is not yet two months old but is already a radio success. Skelly filling stations are confined to the Midwest, so Skelly's Court of Missing Heirs is confined to 29 Columbia Broadcasting System and other Midwest stations. Dramatized each week...