Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the club are negatively impressed by their bullet riddled retreat below the swimming pool...
...high gravity of the oil (it is almost pure gasoline), and the depth of the oil-saturated strata (about 1,700 ft., the deepest of its kind ever found), caused experts to guess that the pool may contain a minimum of 50 million barrels, a maximum of 600 million barrels. In honor of Old Mike, the area was named Benedum Field...
Mike's Memorial. Not till more wells are drilled will the size of the new pool be known. But the discovery well was pouring out 500 barrels a day, the maximum under Texas regulations...
...moved on to make the first big strike (Crawford Field) in Illinois. He lost most of his cash in Oklahoma mud, recouped it by discovering the huge Caddo pool in Louisiana...
...Mike Benedum prowled the world in search of oil, losing fortunes in Peru and China, but making bigger ones on major strikes in Mexico, Colombia, Rumania. His most spectacular achievement was the discovery of the great Yates pool in Texas, in 1926. It prompted his claim that "Joe and I have unloosed more oil than anyone else." In unloosing it Benedum piled up a fortune estimated at over $80,000,000. The new strike, big as it was, proved only that a wildcatter could never quit...