Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Oct. 16, p. 32: "The oil industry . . with the pumps slowly chugging in the exhausted fields of Pennsylvania...
...Pennsylvania grade petroleum region not only provides the world with more motor oil than ever before but a committee of geologists and petroleum engineers has reported to the Cole congressional committee that the future available supply is many times greater than the total yield since the Drake discovery 80 years...
...Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association Oil City...
...Exhausted" was an over-violent word. Still well-oiled is Pennsylvania, though its oil now lies so deep that primary drilling has given way to "water drive"-pumping water to force oil through the wells. Pennsylvania's reserves on January 1, 1939 were 200,000,000 barrels, as compared with more than 9,000,000,000 for Texas...
...prepared themselves to cushion any thank-you-ma'ams along that road -a slight, stooped Pennsylvania Irishman with grey hair frizzled in a permanent wave, Pat Boland of Scranton; and a short, old-fashioned general law practitioner, perfecto-puffing Luther Alexander Johnson of Corsicana...