Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scion of one of Cleveland's first families is William Bingham II, son of the city's biggest wholesale hardware dealer, grandson of Samuel Colt (firearms), related by blood and inheritance to Colonel Oliver H. Payne of Standard Oil. Rich but shy at 59, Mr. Bingham spends most of his time in his home in Bethel on the banks of Maine's Androscoggin River. He first went there to be near his old Cleveland friend. Neurologist John George Gehring, who had bought an old inn in Bethel for a private sanatorium.* When Dr. Gehring died...
...scrawny with drought and his back was bad with rheumatism. Finally he got him a cane to hobble around on. Chance came to Farmer Travis last spring when a gang of husky young men from the Southwest put up a derrick on his land and began to drill for oil. On May 23 they brought in an oil well which produced nearly 3,000 barrels the first 24 hours. That day Farmer Travis threw away his cane...
...summer through southern Illinois such tales as this have been the fresh coin of conversation in beer joints, barber shops, boarding houses, depots and town halls, adding their drawled excitement to the bustle and clank of an authentic oil boom. Farmers had their first intimation of it early last year when Chicago's great Pure Oil Co. started methodically buying oil rights on acre after acre in the country east and south of Vandalia...
...last week 115 test wells were drilling in 21 counties of Illinois' central basin and 75 wells were producing 10,000 barrels a day in Clay, Marion and Richland counties. First strike in Richland was the Ohio Oil Co.'s "Arbuthnot No. 1," brought in fortnight ago with a flow of 2,561 barrels the first day, which seemed to prove a 30-mi. extension of the known producing area. Close-mouthed oilmen now predict that the first year's production from Illinois' new fields will be between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 barrels...
This is a small tributary indeed to the vast flow from U. S. oil fields, which last week for the 17th time since January 1 broke all records with an average production of 3,651,000 barrels per day. But for Illinois it is a revival of hopes forgotten during the quarter-century when the State's oil production dwindled from a peak of 33,000,000 barrels in 1910 to a scant 4,000,000 last year in the old pumping grounds near the Indiana border. Most active of the new fields is the Patoka pool south...