Word: pollard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With high hopes, Allen Moye, 39, a hard-scrabbling cotton planter and hog raiser, gave rights to Humble Oil & Refining Co. to drill a wildcat well on his 100-acre farm, just five miles above the Florida line, near Pollard, Ala. He knew the odds were long even though Humble, one of the biggest wildcat gamblers in the U.S., was doing the drilling. For 18 days, Moye, his wife and four children watched as the Humble bits sank a full mile below the cotton fields without striking anything. Then, under the glare of the night lights...
...weeks after a reunion party of University of Tennessee faculty members, Physicist William G. Pollard had a burning idea on his mind. One of his colleagues -a woman physicist-had just returned from a wartime job with the atomic energy program at the University of Chicago, and during the party she suddenly made an exciting suggestion. Oak Ridge, said she, had so many facilities that U.S. universities lacked. Why couldn't it be made into a permanent educational institution itself? A few months later, Pollard took a leave of absence from the University of Tennessee to devote himself...
...batch of 32 students from 19 states will arrive for special study. Some of the students are professors, some are M.D.s, some are graduates working for advanced degrees. Their fields cover everything from agriculture to biology, chemistry to cancer. In its five short years under Executive Director William Pollard, the institute has become a major mecca, not only for physicists, but for scientists of every sort...
Combine of Campuses. To get the institute started, Pollard carried a crusade to every important campus in the South, preaching the simple doctrine that...
...crusade with him. When the institute opened, it had 14 charter members willing to help support it, and gradually the number rose to 29. Through a central council and a board of directors these members manage the institute's affairs, share its Government-owned facilities. Says William Pollard: "We like the universities to feel that Oak Ridge is a part of their own campus...