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Esso France's second drilling at Parentis hit water, but a fortnight ago a well drilled at a third site came in, is now pumping at a rate of 2,400 bbls. a day. Says Esso France's President Serge Scheer: "Parentis No. 1 is already the richest well in all France. But we are still unable to say exactly how far the layer of oil extends below the sandy surface. We are currently boring well No. 4 [down to 6,232 ft. last week], and by March we expect to have six or seven wells in this...
...trailers as collateral, to borrow enough from Grand Junction banks to buy a jeep and rent a bulldozer. Then he built a rough twelve-mile road into his property and started to mine uranium ore. He soon proved up 300,000 tons of uranium ore, one of the richest finds in the Colorado plateau...
...week, sat down at a desk and began signing her name to a stack of documents. Mrs. Mary Moody Northen, 62, was formally taking over as head of the $400 million empire left by her father, W. L. Moody Jr., who died at 89 as one of the ten richest men in the U.S. (TIME...
...fantastic 48,000. The prospectors promptly staked out a mile-square claim, named it Mary Kathleen after McConachie's wife, who had died ten days before. As word of the strike hit the newspapers, 14 companies began bidding for the lease. It looked like Australia's richest strike to date, with an estimated 1,350,000 tons of ore worth upwards of $20 million...
...empires that crumbled at the shock of nationalism after World War II, few fell apart so abruptly as The Netherlands'. Just three days after Japan's surrender, Indonesia declared its independence and proclaimed the end of The Hague's richest and biggest colony, The Netherlands East Indies. By late 1949, prodded by the U.S., the Dutch had recognized Indonesian sovereignty over practically all of their Pacific territories...