Word: wildcatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find it, Humble put its wildcat crews in boats and pioneered some radically new techniques. Its geophysicists cruised the Gulf with seismographs and gravity meters to look for salt dome structures (where salt domes are, there is usually oil), finally spotted one in the waters off Grand Isle, La. (see map, NATIONAL AFFAIRS). An oceanographer who helped plan the Normandy invasion also helped Humble. He gathered the weather data for a stormproof drilling platform that took over 5,000,000 pounds of steel to build and whose pilings were sunk 197 feet into the Gulf bottom...
...wildcats, who have been making money, plausibly retort that without the cheap "air coach" rates most of their passengers would have gone by train or bus. Said strapping (6 ft. 3½ in.), cocksure Stan Weiss, president of wildcat Standard Air Lines: "The airlines are afraid of us, not because we are taking money away from them, but because the public and the Government now have something to measure them...
That was why CAB last week ordered Wildcatter Weiss to suspend all operations, declared it would register no additional wildcat lines, ordered an investigation into all wildcat "practices and activities." Weiss, whose airline faces a death sentence if the CAB order sticks, went into court, and got a ten-day stay of execution. Without blocking a metaphor, he argued that the airlines were angry because wildcatters had "pulled the ground out from under them," added that he was "not going to be shouted out of business by [an] octopus...
...rotted beneath battened hatches and in warehouses. Equally worrisome to Britain was the fact that a flood of goods intended for the export trade was piling up at dockside. And at week's end, this state of things had been going on for 13 days. The reason: a wildcat strike of 19,000 dockers who still scorned the come-back-to-work talk of Transport and General Workers' Union General Secretary Arthur Deakin and his union straw bosses...
That was no sudden, theoretician's conclusion. Big Jim had come up through the brawling competition of the wildcat oilfields; his roots were deep in Pennsylvania history. One of his ancestors was a member of William Penn's Council. His grandfather was one of the first to strike oil in western Pennsylvania...