Word: okla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balko, Okla...
George Cameron, 40, struck it rich in Colorado's Rangely oilfield. After drilling 40 productive wells in a row, with an annual income of $600,000 pouring relentlessly on top of his previously oil-won millions, he settled down in Tulsa, Okla. But the new-found leisure bored him. "Oil just means more money," he complained, "I can't sleep with it. I have no sense of doing or accomplishing anything...
...secured the tower of the National Bank of Tulsa for KOTV's transmitter. Wearing shorts, she clambered up 400 ft. on an outside ladder to inspect the tower installation. (During this ceremony, a startled workman dropped a wrench to the street below, killing a woman pedestrian from Sapulpa, Okla...
...Southern Great Plains Experimental Range at Woodward, Okla., state and federal experimenters found that airplane-sprayed 2,4-D, the chemical that kills "broad-leaved" plants while leaving grasses unharmed, did a fine job of killing sagebrush. The treatment costs a little more than $2 an acre and destroys as much as 90% of the pest. On de-brushed range, cattle gain 75% more weight per acre, and sell for twice as much as if they had to hunt grass among sagebrush...
Penalty. In Hollis, Okla., Nan Claiborne, candidate for high-school football queen, tried the game herself, lost a front tooth and the title...