Word: wildcatted
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...mile-long Turner Valley oilfield (only sizable field in all Canada except the Canol area in the far north) was obviously petering out. Nevertheless, oilmen were convinced that a great untapped oil reservoir lay somewhere under Alberta. War speeded up the search for the hidden pool. This year wildcat drillers spent nearly $15,000,000 in the search...
...hills, just did not believe the school board understood the situation. His three sons had to walk along a branch and down a holler and did not get home until after dark. He sent his 26-year-old son, Orville, to town on muleback to explain about the wildcat...
Last week Father Johnson drove into Vanceburg in his threadbare overalls, mule whip over his shoulder, determined to get his rights. He got a setback from the school superintendent, who told him he had not thought he would ever see a Lewis County man afraid to fight a wildcat. Father Johnson admitted the cateymount had him purely frightened. "I've never been afeard of man ner beast," he said, "but when that old cateymount yowls near our house it just makes my hair stand plumb straight up on my head." The old man hoped the authorities would bring...
...American workers are split on the issue. The rank & file is obviously anxious to get back the right to strike, their strongest bargaining weapon, as soon as possible. And the rank-&-filers at the convention were well organized around the Briggs Detroit Local No. 212, which has had 33 wildcat strikes since the first of the year. The chief argument of the rank-&-filers was a paradox: if the union were allowed to strike, it would not strike so often...
...days after the assault on Peleliu Admiral Wilkinson made his second move. He gave Major General Paul J. Mueller's 81st ("Wildcat") Army Division its baptism of fire by sending it ashore on southernmost, phosphate-producing Angaur Island, six miles south of Peleliu. Initial resistance was lighter this time...