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...underground water beneath the Yard while working on a water main. He kept the secret to himself, although he realized there was little chance of buying the property and setting up oil wells in the Yard. After six months he had another chance to work on the water pipe lines and cheek his suspicion of oil. He discovered oil again, leaking from a supply can this time. The worker, who wants to remain anonymous, is still around the College, but he's given up all dreams...
...made another network bid with shows for Barbasol and Carnation Milk. Though profitable for Godfrey, these shows left the nation unmoved. He was now so firmly labeled a "local boy" that Godfrey had to threaten to go back to NBC before CBS would agree to pipe part of his early-morning show into New York. But this show caught on, and in 1944 he made his third and final assault on network listeners. Keeping his local jobs, he undertook to broadcast over CBS without salary until he had lined up some sponsors. Further, he convinced CBS that he should...
...been given in Denver, they have shown definitely that we are not 'neglecting the three Rs.' " But, says he, "if the child is taught only to read and spell, the schools have not done their job. The twig must be bent to democratic living." "Hell," declared easygoing, pipe-smoking Assistant Superintendent Hinderman, "nothing has been taken away from the schools, but a lot has been added. We can't have horse & buggy education in a hydrogen bomb...
...were possible to cap the human ego like a gas well, and to pipe off its more volatile byproducts as fuel, Houston's multi-millionaire wildcatter Glenn McCarthy could heat a city the size of Omaha with no help at all. Whether he would allow his rampant psyche to be dedicated completely to so prosaic a project, however, is doubtful-several million cubic feet would undoubtedly be diverted to a McCarthy Memorial Beacon which would nightly cast its glare as far west as El Paso...
...long, heartbreaking job. But on Jan. 10, 1901, when the bit had reached 1,020 ft., the well began to erupt. With a cannonlike report, mud, water and gas roared up, shooting pipe and rocks high in the air. Then came a greasy and terrifying geyser of oil - a 75,000-barrel-a-day flow, more than many a whole field produces. Within weeks, the town of Beaumont was a madhouse of tents, saloons, lean-tos and one-room shacks; land on the dome was selling for as much as $1,000,000 an acre, and derricks were rising...