Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pensions: To pay $100 a month to everybody over 65 would cost $12 billion a year, and raise the question "whether our economy can stand that tremendous burden without deterring industry as well as the worker." He wanted a basic Government study of pension plans...
...said to him, 'I understand you are trying to get Noel Field away from my organization and into yours.' He said to me, 'So you're the famous girl who is trying to get Noel Field away from me?' Then he said, 'Well, we'll see who is going to win.' I said to him, 'Well, Mr. Hiss, I hope you realize you are competing with a woman.' Then one of us, I don't remember whether it was him or myself, said 'Whoever is going...
...customers was a wealthy Spanish cattleman named Ramon Samovia; Yant confided to Samovia that oil had just been discovered near some property he owned in Placerita Canyon-he would be rich as soon as he dug up enough money to sink a well himself. Samovia bought into his scheme...
Yant dutifully sank a well, not near the canyon bottom as Samovia had expected, but high on his own hilly acres. To every one's amazement he hit oil: 2,000 barrels a day. He sank four more wells, brought in a producer every time...
...lease-hungry oil speculators and scores of Yant's once disgruntled suckers (many of whom had never filed their deeds) converged on the canyon. The results were spectacular. Amid angry litigation set off by the rush, the California" superior court reversed a law which allowed but one well to the acre, and oil derricks began to rise on Yant's old subdivision like quills on a porcupine's back. In less than a week, 44 drilling rigs were trucked up the single road to the field; 10,000 men labored feverishly at the task of tapping...