Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week's wildcat strike by 6,000 A.F.L. building workers slowed new construction at Oak Ridge but did not affect production...
Once, Richardson hauled Murchison out of an evening poker game to investigate a wildcat well he had heard about. They raced to the closely guarded site and, by bluffing guards, got near enough to smell oil. Next day they spent $50,000 buying leases in the area. Twenty-four hours later, they sold the leases...
Then Murchison made the decision that made him rich: he started drilling. Through a system of "financin' by finaglin'," i-e-, getting money in exchange for a share of one lease, a rig in exchange for a share of another, he formed a new partnership, started drilling wildcat wells at the rate of 50 or 60 a year. Murchison always put aside a few shares for himself. He struck it lucky and his income soared to $30,000 a month. In 1925 he sold his oil interests for some $5.000,000, retired to San Antonio...
...Wildcat in the Bag. Black and white reaction was mixed. Governor Baring himself gives the plan, at best, a 50-50 chance; Kenya's white settlers, some of whom believe that the best way to fight the Mau Mau is to "hang the Kikuyu tribe in batches of 25," condemn it as "immoral" and "appeasement...
Many guerrilla chieftains seemed suspicious of the British offer. "We fear there is a wildcat in the bag," said one whom China interviewed. But at week's end, ten favorable replies had been received, and there were two important surrenders: "General Tanganyika," China's former second in command, and "General Katanga." Field Marshal Russia also replied-but in a taunting letter sent not to General China but to British District Officer John Candler. "Soon you die," the note said. Shortly afterwards, Candler drove into the forest and ran smack into Russia's ambush. His body was buried...