Word: williston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While at Hotchkiss he turned out undefeated football and swimming teams, losing only one dual swimming meet to Williston Academy last year. At the prep school he emphasized calisthenics as taught him by his father and introduced a special body-building course for students...
...rich Williston Basin, a Shell Oil Co. wildcat crew last week brought in a well near Baker, Mont. that gushed oil at the rate of 4,253 barrels a day. It was the richest well yet drilled in the basin...
...Williston Basin moved into the news as the site...
...where new multimillion-dollar plants were no rarity, some Texans predicted that petrochemicals would outstrip oil as their biggest industry. But Texas and the Gulf Coast had no monopoly on petrochemicals; California was giving it a race, and in the Great Plains' great new oil province of the Williston Basin, North Dakotans were predicting that their own petrochemical industry would soon arise...
...luck seemed to be the fact that it had Jacobsen. Amerada's net profit rose from $1,147,207 in 1932 to $16,296,652 in 1951. Its estimated oil reserves rose to 500 million bbls., without counting the hundreds of millions more that may be in the Williston Basin...