Word: rotan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well, their second in two months. Hope and Crosby and their two Texas partners promptly began drilling two more. Near by, Don Ameche, who had leased 21,600 acres with three Chicago partners, had put up $200,000 to sink a wildcat. Just east of the small town of Rotan, Tex., where he had leased 1,500 acres, Randolph Scott and his partner found oil sands at 5,700 ft., hoped to be producing "within three weeks...