Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things, Divine Providence had led him to money and it was his holy duty to spend it. But after the failure of The Ladder the Davis successes grew fewer. His North & South Development Co. continued to wildcat in the Darst Creek and Buckeye Fields, but brought in no spectacular wells. Promoter Davis traveled less frequently, gave fewer dinner parties, confined himself to quiet bridge games and an occasional art lecture. All of his remaining capital went into the drilling of hugely expensive "deep oil" holes which invariably turned...
...sooner had Representative O'Connor got well started toward headlines, investigating the mutual accusations of Representative Brewster and Brain Truster Tom Corcoran, than Senator Black stole the front page from him by a more spectacular investigation of fake telegrams from Pennsylvania (TIME, July...
Last week California glared out again in the news as the favorite stamping ground of obscure young scientists who bemuse the nation by bringing "dead" animals back to life. Of all places in the world, Hollywood seemed the ideal spot for the spectacular experiments conducted for the past fortnight by young Dr. Ralph Stanley Willard...
Bullish as were the half-year earnings of most steel companies, they were not bullish enough to account for last week's spectacular rise in steel shares on the New York Stock Exchange where no less than 14 steel issues broke into new high ground. One was U. S. Steel preferred which soared to 100¾, to sink only three-fourths of a point after earnings were announced. Reason was the counter-seasonal boom in steel. While everyone supposed that, as usual, steel operations would wilt in July, late July production turned out to be nearly a record...
...brusque Arkansan named M. Frank Yount and a florid West Virginian named Thomas Peter Lee started Yount-Lee Oil Co. at Beaumont, Tex. On an original capital of $50,000 they spent 13 years drilling in Texas and Louisiana without spectacular success. Then suddenly, in 1926, Yount-Lee made national news by rediscovering the famed Spindletop Field near Beaumont. Everybody supposed that Spindletop had been drained dry. Yount-Lee opened a rich new producing sand by drilling deeper than anybody had had the courage to go before. Later the company discovered and developed the High Island Field in Galveston County...