Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...week and in eight minutes, seeming well under control, produced 350 bbl. of oil. Then sand came with the driving liquid, cut through the valves, demolished the surmounting derrick. The well turned into the "wildest ever seen," much more powerful and dangerous than the nearby Mary Sudik, which last spring kept Oklahoma citizens alarmed for ten days (TIME, April 14). C. E. Stout No. 1 cast up daily about 100,000,000 cu. ft. of gas, about 60,000 bbl. of oil valued at around $125,000. The oil slimed the State Capitol far to the north on West 23rd...
...repeal of the 18th Amendment. His Wetness pulled his Dry friend George White through to the governorship. A factor in Senator McCulloch's defeat was the opposition of Ne groes, aroused by his support of President Hoover's nomination of John Johnston Parker for the Supreme Court last spring...
Exuberantly Il Duce concluded: "By the year 1950 Italy will be the only country of young people in Europe, while the rest of Europe will be wrinkled and decrepit. People will come from over the frontier to see the phenomenon of this blooming Spring of the Italian people...
Cambridge weekend . . . . weekend you say? . . . . the last time I was up it went on from the opening of the fall drinking season, to Maundy Thursday . . . . yes and ended in the spring disinheritance . . . . weekend Indeed, why the Hoosick Whisick party itself wasn't over for eight days . . . . not until somebody found the last mural moosehead floating under Harvard Bridge and the plumbers had removed a stuffed badger from the innards of my open plumbing fixture . . . . a pretty notion of a weekend, just getting the, old grad back and doing a job on him . . . . what about my reputation? . . . . last year you know...
Copper; 9½ Cents. When copper had tumbled to 14? per Ib. last spring, M. Fernand Pisart, managing director of Societie Generale des Minerals of Brussels, potent marketer of African copper, arrived in Manhattan (TIME, May 5). Roundly was it hinted then that all copper countries would cooperate, the price be held. Last week, just after copper had dropped to a new low of 9½?, a level not witnessed since 1895, it was disclosed that once again M. Pisart would visit the U. S. Again it is hoped that his arrival may mean an agreement to curtail African production...