Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought up Colorado shale land from original prospectors on the theory that eventually a cheap extraction process will be found. Denver records show the following holdings: Standard Oil of New Jersey, 20,000 acres; Union of California, 18,000; Continental, 10,000; Texas, 10,000; Prairie, 7,000; Deep Rock, 4,000; Pure Oil, 4,000; Honolulu, 2,500. About 100,000 out of the 800,000 acres of Colorado shale land have been patented; another 100,000 acres are patentable...
Last week at Little Rock, Ark., Medicine had a chance comparable to the famed St. Martin case. Marie Overby, 9, and her mother had been motoring near the city. Their car became entangled in a fallen high-power transmission line. Mrs. Overby was electrocuted. Rescuers rushed Marie to Little Rock where hospital attendants discovered a nine-inch hole burned through her left chest wall. Flesh, ribs and pleura were gone. The left lung had collapsed. But her heart was beating strongly. She said she felt no pain. There was no possible hope of saving her. So the doctors, mindful...
...public may not know that there is situated upon the public domain in Western Colorado an immense oil reserve . . . of approximately 800,000 acres in which the oil occurs in a rock called shale. . . . This oil field contains more than 40 billion barrels of petroleum of a potential value ... in excess of 40 billion dollars, equal to about one-tenth the entire wealth...
...younger sister, is a jealous little flapper with her eyes wide open. Alas for peace, three young men live near by. Two of them, André and Bertrand, are brothers, childhood friends of Antoinette's. But their guest Robert, bronzed, much-traveled civil engineer, is the rock on which feminine friendship is shattered. Realist Suzon, seeing she has no chance with Robert, contents herself with tantalizingly dangerous escapades with Bertrand, light of heart and tongue. André is hopelessly in love with Antoinette, makes love to Annonciade in order to score over her idol. Before he knows it they...
...were parties all week through Long Island's polo country. Big cars hurried along the roads, driving a little faster than usual for there were many trips to be made-guests met at the station, a wait at the front door and then to Meadow Brook or Piping Rock for lunch, then the game, then out to dinner, and a long wait through the dancing. At the parties, and in the garish, robins-egg blue grandstand at the games, was a mingling of many worlds, the great business world and the somewhat different, sporting-society world, with a touch...