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Texas. Newest of the giant's ailments has been the opening of the prodigious new pool in Eastern Texas. Last week its production mounted so rapidly that the Texas Railroad Commission revised the original proration figures for the field from 50,000 bbl. to 75,000 bbl, with an ultimate flow in 90 days of 125,000 bbl. Present capacity of the field is estimated at 500,000 bbl...
...been a lawyer in Oklahoma for 30 years, has grown up with the oil industry in that state. In the Senate oil is his chief interest-the oil of independent producers as distinguished from the oil imported by the big refining companies. He battled for a $1-per-bbl. tariff and lost. He battled for an embargo on oil imports and lost. The close of the Senate session found him tall and stubborn, battling no less vainly for a resolution whereby a Senate committee would investigate the oil industry. Chief objector to this resolution was Pennsylvania's Senator Reed...
...Kaposszecsko, Hungary, Joseph Reitinger, native who had made his fortune in the U. S., told the official village announcer to go about with his drum, invite the whole village to the local public house for free drinks, free music. Joseph Reitinger paid for 3 bbl. of wine, 2 bbl. of beer, 7 gal. of spirits. Next night he wished to do the same thing. Officials banned the party: they had been obliged to break up 17 fights...
Last week the independents cheered when the Senate Commerce Committee voted (9-to-6) in favor of the Capper Bill which provides for a reduction in crude imports to 16,000,000 bbl. per year for the next three years, and a total embargo on gasoline during this time...
...Della Crim Well came in on the Crim farm about twelve miles north of the first well, near the village of Kilgore. The entire town turned out for the event. A notable exception was Mrs. Crim herself, who went to church. With this well, which started flowing 22,000 bbl. per day. the boom started. Malcolm Crim has made a living for the past 20 years financing the local Negro farmers. In so doing he has acquired much land around Kilgore. Now he sits in the back of his general store, smokes a corncob pipe, parcels out his scattered estate...