Word: tidelands
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...California a longer and louder wrangle over off-shore oil wells was settled, at least for several years to come, when Governor Merriam signed a bill for leasing State-owned oil land under the sea near Huntington Beach.* A legislative headache in California for years, this strip of tideland holds natural gas and oil worth about $500,000,000. At one time the State tried leasing it to oil companies which did their drilling from piers built out through the surf. Opposition came not from fishermen but from bathers who found oil scum all over their beaches. They raised such...