Word: oklahoma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oklahoma...
...Passed bills increasing funds to modernize the battleships Oklahoma, Nevada, California and to complete two submarines. ¶ Passed bills adjusting the personnel and pay of Marines, Army, Navy, Coast & Geodetic Survey, Public Health Service. ¶ Passed a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross upon Orville Wright and the late Wilbur Wright; sent it to the Senate...
...cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina Gore, daughter of blind onetime (1907-12) U. S. Senator from Oklahoma Thomas Pryor Gore, made a one-line stage debut; Flora Sheffield exhibited a girlish physique as the heroine and Campbell Gullan, with a tykish burr, played the newspaper sleuth...
...every year since 1918, there were on hand large surplus stocks of oil. During 1927, production increased to about 900,000,000 barrels. Furthermore, new wells are being constantly discovered. Only last week a new Kansas well began flowing at the rate of 7,000 barrels a day; an Oklahoma well "came in" at 2,500 barrels...
...Hughes and President Coolidge were mentioned for the position. It was finally concluded, however, that in the present unsettled condition of the industry it would be better to forego the glory of a great name and select a man well acquainted with petroleum problems. So Edwin Benjamin Reeser, of Oklahoma, president of the Barnsdall Corp., was elected.* Mr. Reeser lives in Tulsa; whenever he visits his Manhattan offices he shakes the hand of every member of his staff...