Word: oilmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around me," said a Southern oil-lease broker a while back, "I'll produce oil in Georgia." Up to last week, Georgia was not yet an oil state-but it had begun to look as if the Lord had His arm around the whole southeastern U.S. Conservative oilmen are still talking conservatively, but even they admit that the Southeast is now enjoying the biggest oil-land boom since the 1930s...
...clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around the derrick swore it would produce from...
...acre for their land.* In the nearby county seat of Paulding, the tiny brick courthouse bulged with lawyers wrestling with the legal tangles that resulted when the old frame courthouse burned down in 1932 and most of the county's land records went with it. Oilmen, betting that Mississippi would become a major oil-producing state, excitedly pointed out that Heidelberg's oil sands are 200 ft. thick; a 30-ft. oil sand was supposed to be "good" in Texas and Oklahoma...
...southern Georgia only a half-dozen wells have been drilled, but 8,000,000 acres are already under lease, mostly to big companies like Humble, which have already spent more than $2,000,000 for test drillings. In the little turpentine town of Waycross, near the Florida line, oilmen are so thick that the Chamber of Commerce has taken over the whole second floor of the Ware Hotel to accommodate them-and its own Oil and Gas Committee...
...British Government's oilmen and the British oil industry have long been almost indistinguishable. But the Roosevelt Administration still behaves as if it were a sign of original sin for the U.S. Government and U.S. oil companies to sit down together...