Word: spuds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were coming into production. No less than 85 drilling rigs were punching the Alberta earth in search of new oil pockets ; but for the steel shortage, there would be twice as many. Also at work were 65 crews with seismographs and gravitometers, picking likely spots for the drillers to "spud in." In 1949, bills for oil exploration would top $20 million...
...only took 20 minutes to pick the jury for the trial of the first defendant, a 22-year-old tenant farmer named William ("Spud") Howell. Then Amy was put on the stand. She told how she and Big Duck and their baby and two cousins were on their way home in their car at night and how a gang of men "with white stuff on them" and "pistol guns" had stopped their car, and shot Robert Mallard dead...
...attorney asked if she had recognized anyone. "Yes," she said, "William Spud Howell." Spud just smiled. But when Amy told how Big Duck got shot she went to pieces. She yelled, "Oh Lawdy, Oh murder. They killed him." She got down on her knees, screamed, "I see 'em. I see 'em. Oh Lord-why did they murder him?" A lot of people in the audience couldn't help laughing...
Last week the department had a new hot potato. Potatoes from Canada, which also had a surplus, were flooding the U.S., underselling the propped-up domestic spud. In Portland, Maine, right in the nation's own potato patch, Canadian potatoes were about 40? a 100 Ibs. (15%) cheaper, despite a duty of 37½?; and 43? freight. Maine so far this season has shipped only 133 carloads of potatoes (v. 483 at this time last year), while Canada had sent 398 carloads into...
With Steve Davin, George Hauptfuhrer, and Bill Prior providing the height necessary to control the backboards and Chip Gannon holding Jumbo scoring ace Spud Shapire to five points, the Crimson bounced back to rack up its third win in four starts after trailing 24 to 29 shortly after the start of the second half...