Word: williston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nipper"*jumped more than 10 points. At 94⅜ it was selling at more than three times last year's low. Investors liked the Nipper not because it was a railroad, but because it owns or has mineral rights on 3,200,000 acres of land in Williston Basin, the nation's richest new oilfield. Its rise surprised thousands of bears who had thought the stock too high after a big previous rise and sold it short. Last week, as the shorts frantically bought to avoid heavier losses, they drove the stock still higher...
...freshman skiers travel to Vermont Academy for their last meet of the season today. Competing in the four event meet are Harvard, Mount Herman, Vermont Academy, Williston, and possibly the Middlebury freshmen. Captain Steve Reynolds, Ebby Dane, Chris Ingraham, Bill Wilson, Pete Pratt, and Fred Churchill will race for the promising freshman team...
...company. As a result, Socony's proved domestic reserves have climbed from 1,121,000,000 bbls. in 1946 to 1,641,000,000. It has tapped an immense pool in its Pegasus Field in Texas, is one of the biggest explorers in North Dakota's promising Williston Basin, and has 6,800,000 acres on lease in Canada. It is already producing at its Duhamel field in Alberta, and a month ago brought in the new Roseray well in southern Saskatchewan...
...Pacific Railway in northeastern Montana's Dawson County, and speculators were hustling in last week to snap up the remaining drilling rights on a million acres of surrounding territory. Oilmen are excited about the strike because it is the first commercial well to tap the Montana section of Williston Basin, a vast layer of sedimentary rock under much of. North and South Dakota, Montana, and parts of Canada. The well is only 100 miles from Tioga, N. Dak., where the first strike in the entire Williston Basin was made four months...
Thomas Reed Powell, Story Professor of Law, emeritus, is also still teaching. He lectures on American Constitutional Law at Suffolk Law School and at the New School for Social Research in New York and still attends all the meetings of the Faculty of Law. Another lawyer, Samuel Williston, Dane Professor of Law, emeritus, visits Langdell every day. At 89, he is America's foremost authority on contracts...