Word: oklahoma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheerful development was that 28 Oklahoma oil producers had met, unanimously agreed to put state-wide restrictions into effect. Previous voluntary curtailment, believed by oilmen to be the only remedy for overproduction, had been mostly between operators in a single field. Two such restrictions went in effect in Oklahoma last month and are believed to have been the reason that Midcontinent petroleum prices have been maintained while oil from other fields has been reduced...
Exposition visitors who chanced to be in Oklahoma City later in the week watched two figures, protected by metal shields and a heavy barrage of water, start to work their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam...
Negroes from North Carolina, coal miners from Indiana, a detachment from the Chicago Board of Trade, another composed of Oklahoma Indians, a mud-covered dozen of doughboys from Chattanooga (advertising war's discomfort), these and others to the number of 35,000 marched and countermarched last week in Louisville, Ky. at the American Legion's eleventh annual convention, a record-breaker both for spectators and for excitement...
...cinema across the street. Born in Kansas City, Mo., her first part, aged seven, was "Puck" in a dancing school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After trooping with tent shows of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she played -'Little Eva," in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, she reached Manhattan in 1911, was given a small part in Jumping Jupiter, later toured with Julian Eltinge in The Crinoline Girl, with George Arliss in Disraeli (see p. 69). Meteoric was her success as Harlot Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain (1922). Although she missed...
Producers Outlets. Prairie Oil & Gas Co., once part of the extinct Standard Oil, a large producer (but not a retailer), of oil in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming was last week reported about to merge with Sinclair, thereby acquiring a retailing agency. From jail, Chairman Sinclair admitted "through a friend" that engineers were surveying the properties of both companies, but added happily, "I have no intention of retiring from the oil business...