Word: fields
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Gusher. Both Texas industry and Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy were born at Spindletop-a gently sloping salt dome near Beaumont, from which gushed the first big flood of dark, heavy Texas oil. Like many another boom field which was to follow, the Spindletop discovery was the result of one man's faith, energy and stubbornness...
...reached 1,020 ft., the well began to erupt. With a cannonlike report, mud, water and gas roared up, shooting pipe and rocks high in the air. Then came a greasy and terrifying geyser of oil - a 75,000-barrel-a-day flow, more than many a whole field produces. Within weeks, the town of Beaumont was a madhouse of tents, saloons, lean-tos and one-room shacks; land on the dome was selling for as much as $1,000,000 an acre, and derricks were rising, leg to leg, in a confused and feverish race for riches...
...rigs in his ears; his father, an itinerant oilfield workman named William McCarthy, came to Spindletop as a driller, and Glenn was born there in 1907. One of his earliest memories concerns the great Gulf Coast hurricane of 1915. As the storm approached, the elder McCarthy galloped to the field in a two-wheeled gig; Glenn went with him and crouched in the roaring darkness as derrick after derrick crashed into wreckage...
This April the College will have the annual spring edition of the course catalogue printed, and copies will be pressed into waiting freshman bands. These young men will then choose a field of concentration, and turn in a program to their departments. The estalogue is important for these students and for anyone else who wants to plan ahead...
More than a concentrator's guide, the catalogue is a shopping list for men taking courses outside their field where advisers cannot give much help. At present many departments write too little about their courses. Space and financial limits prevent describing all courses as fully as those in General Education, which are still largely experimental. But instructors, especially in courses frequented by non-concentrators, should write their comments with the non-concentrator in mind...