Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With high hopes, Allen Moye, 39, a hard-scrabbling cotton planter and hog raiser, gave rights to Humble Oil & Refining Co. to drill a wildcat well on his 100-acre farm, just five miles above the Florida line, near Pollard, Ala. He knew the odds were long even though Humble, one of the biggest wildcat gamblers in the U.S., was doing the drilling. For 18 days, Moye, his wife and four children watched as the Humble bits sank a full mile below the cotton fields without striking anything. Then, under the glare of the night lights...
...Abadan refinery (see FOREIGN NEWS), and the two are boosting their Kuwait production as rapidly as possible to help meet Europe's oil deficit. Political upheavals are not the only changes. Soaring costs have made the hunt for oil enormously expensive. Recently, Swensrud launched Gulf on the biggest wildcat hunt in the U.S., exploring 800,000 acres leased from the State of Mississippi.* Gulf may well sink millions without result. But Swensrud is not perturbed. Gulf, a pioneer in the science of petroleum geophysics, has helped trim the odds against finding oil from 15-to-1 to a mere...
...partnership with Texas' famed Wildcat King Mike Benedum...
Died. Maria Montez (christened Maria de Santo Silas), 31, whose burning eyes, heaving bosom and tawny allure energized a long series of sex-and-geography pictures (Gipsy Wildcat, South of Tahiti, Cobra Woman); in her reducing bath (probably of a heart attack brought on by the scalding water); in Paris, where she lived with her second husband, French Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont...
Cease Firing. In West Springfield, Mass., Hunter William Lafar decided he had bagged a small wildcat, tried to collect the county's standard $25 bounty, learned that his trophy was Jumbo, a neighbor's $100 outsize Siamese...