Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army made him a Brigadier General at 38, gave him the 12th Fighter Command in Africa in 1943. On D-plus-one, he landed on a shell-swept Normandy beach as a major general heading the 9th Fighter Command in Hoyt Vandenberg's Ninth Air Force. Harsh and driving, he was all over the front, browbeating airfield engineers, chewing out squadron commanders for not doing more, flying battle missions between times...
...boom is on in Montana. The Shell Oil Co. struck petroleum on land leased from the Northern Pacific Railway in northeastern Montana's Dawson County, and speculators were hustling in last week to snap up the remaining drilling rights on a million acres of surrounding territory. Oilmen are excited about the strike because it is the first commercial well to tap the Montana section of Williston Basin, a vast layer of sedimentary rock under much of. North and South Dakota, Montana, and parts of Canada. The well is only 100 miles from Tioga, N. Dak., where the first strike...
...pool. They think it may hold as much oil as Canada's fabulous Leduc pool in Alberta. But no one will know the size of the field until many more wells are drilled. Wall Streeters are not waiting. On the New York Stock Exchange, Shell Oil common jumped six points in four days to 64, the year's high, while Northern Pacific climbed five points to 47⅜, highest in 20 years...
...closer and saw only "three boys," he turned back. He went on down the road and borrowed a trailer from someone else. Later that afternoon, two deputy sheriffs arrested him. One of the "boys," they said, was 17-year-old Willa Jean Boswell, dressed in dungarees and terrapin shell hat. Farmer Ingram was charged with "assault . . . with intent to commit rape" against...
...Save the King." A little after 10 p.m., July 30, Kerans ordered "Slip cable!" Minutes later his ship was on her way. Soon after, the Communists guns opened up and Kerans felt a shell whoosh past his neck, but the Amethyst was untouched. Then she began to flood from a waterline shell hole suffered in the first day's attack. In the engineroom the depleted crew of eleven worked at temperatures up to 170 degrees, drank ten gallons of tea during the frantic run. In the chart-room, two men tried to pick out the channel with an echo...