Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with lawyers wrestling with the legal tangles that resulted when the old frame courthouse burned down in 1932 and most of the county's land records went with it. Oilmen, betting that Mississippi would become a major oil-producing state, excitedly pointed out that Heidelberg's oil sands are 200 ft. thick; a 30-ft. oil sand was supposed to be "good" in Texas and Oklahoma...
...anticipated fall of Odessa might seem the more important, but actually it was by far the lesser of the two events. Odessa was but a sand castle which the rising tide appeared certain to engulf. How the breakers will strike the mountain wall became a far more pertinent question...
...German military document captured in North Africa read: "For the reconnaissance, as indeed for every desert reconnaissance, only captured Canadian trucks are to be employed since German trucks stick in the sand too often...
...Farmer R. F. Cottingham's corn and cotton fields in McClain County, Oklahoma. Now, as the drill bit touched 10,620 ft., the drillers had brought in the gun perforator to shoot 60 half-inch cartridges through the heavy steel casing. They were testing the famed Wilcox sand that, at a much shallower level (from 5,000-6,000 ft.), had turned the great Oklahoma City Field into a bonanza 15 years before...
...within this coral sand...