Word: oklahoma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year and a half ago two veteran Oklahoma oil men put a fancy new, aluminum-colored portable rotary drilling rig on display at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla. It attracted little attention. Then the rig's attendants began to drill. At 540 feet they struck oil. Surprised, they capped the hole, turned the oil well over to Tulsa County...
...Seniors, Al Richter and Art Page, could probably take his measure if they were in shape, and Bruce Richardson would overpower them all if he could descend to their ranks from his regular 145 class--another stiff reducing job. Dick Thomas. Sophomore scissors expert extraordinary, exponent of the crucifix, Oklahoma ride, etc., will prove to be a mighty tough customer for all comers at 145 pounds...
...busy mistress of some great estate, with the whole U. S. as the household. Upstairs, downstairs, morning to night, seven days a week, with never a cross word, she has noted spots of dust on the chandelier, the need for paint on the outlying houses, that dust accumulating in Oklahoma, those new curtains for San Francisco...
...dovetailing corners of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma lie the richest lead and zinc beds in the U. S. There a score of "TriState" towns house 100,000 miners and their families. Typical is Zincville in Ottawa County, Okla. Its battered shacks, pieced together out of tar paper and packing cases, nestle close to glittering mountains of "chat," or quartz dust, the "offal of the mines."On blustery days, wind whips and swirls the stinging quartz dust through the streets and into the houses. Constant inhalation of quartz dust causes silicosis...
...latest . . . figures available for Ottawa County, Oklahoma . . . show that the [mortality] rate for all forms of tuberculosis [in 1930] was then 379.9 per 100,000 for males and 95.8 for females . . . the rate in the United States . . . was 71.8 for males, and 63.0 for females...