Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drillers of Cleveland Petroleum Corp., burrowing in the apple orchard of U. S. Senator John G. Townsend Jr. and partner near Bridgeville, Del., struck oil. They packed up some samples, drove co town. One look at the sticky, black brew was enough to send real estate men scurrying to their telephones. Mortgage-ridden farmers soon heard tales of fabulous land prices. One who had been trying to sell his plot for a few hundred dollars was offered $1,500. "I wouldn't take $4,000 for it now," said he. Storekeepers got ready to pitch hot dog stands near...
Stations across the county border did a boomtime business. The city hastily set up four emergency stations for doctors, nurses, food delivery. When the labor policy board of the Petroleum Administration failed to get the companies to agree to its proposals, Secretary Ickes stepped in with a six-point program providing for arbitration. This time the companies accepted but the unions postponed decision, awaiting clarification of the Ickes proposals on wages and union recognition. At the week's end the four city-operated stations were Cleveland's only source of supply...
...blood. Arkansas veterinarians and entomologists were researching frantically last week, but expected the gnats to be gone before they could learn much. Meantime they advised farmers to smear their stock with rancid lard and kerosene, with cottonseed oil and pine tar, or with a mixture of soap, water, petroleum and powdered naphthalin. But what the farmers really hoped for were a few good hot days, which drop gnats dead as quickly as they come...
...Phillips Petroleum...
...Indian Ocean, Leader Sewell had found a sort of Dead Sea, beginning at a depth of 50 to 100 ft. and extending down indefinitely. The water above it teemed with life; below, no evidence of life whatever could be found. This condition was ascribed to the presence of petroleum, seeping into the ocean through long ages from adjacent lands...