Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shot and shell continued to fall around the Pentagon last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Roger M. Kyes announced his resignation. Because many editors assumed it had something to do with McCarthy, it got bigger headlines than it would ordinarily rate...
...country's oil troubles. Stock in the group is held 40% by Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., 40% by five U.S. firms operating in the Middle East-Standard Oil (N.J.), Gulf Oil, the Texas Co., Standard Oil of California, Socony-Vacuum Oil-and 20% by French and Royal Dutch Shell...
...morning. Next day the stock rose 2¾ points, thanks to Hughes's offer-not to Winchell's tip. Last week Winchell breathlessly peddled another hot market tip: "Another tremendous oil strike 60 miles south of Ely, Nevada." But the "news" had no effect on the market; Shell Oil Co. itself had announced the oil strike two weeks before (TIME, March...
...SHELL OIL, which struck the first oil in Nevada a fortnight ago, may also become the first producer in Arizona. So far, the company has gone down 5,960 ft. in the northeast corner of the state near the Utah-New Mexico border, found traces of oil and a pocket of natural...
...Shell wants to go deeper and drill other wells around Eagle Springs' perimeter before it claims a big field. But Nevada was already in the grip of an oil fever. By week's end, some 2,000,000 acres had been filed on, bringing more than $1,000,000 into Reno's land office...