Word: tampico
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steel balls into the well throttled the flow from 4,500 tons a day to 3,000 tons, but failed to stop it. An oil slick 60 to 70 miles long gradually formed around the well and started to creep northward. Part of the slick was turned back off Tampico, Mexico, by a countercurrent. The rest broke down into large flat pancakes, mousselike patches and thin iridescent streamers...
Interest in Mexico's energy wealth reached fever pitch last month, when Pemex, the government monopoly, revealed the latest strike in the Chicontepec field near the Gulf Coast city of Tampico. Pemex Chief Jorge Diaz Serrano estimated that the field would double the country's potential reserves of oil and gas to more than 200 billion...
...latest strikes were made near the Gulf Coast city of Tampico in the Chicontepec field, where Mexican oil was first found around the turn of the century. The newly discovered oil, which is located below tight, nonporous rock formations, will be difficult to bring to the surface, requiring 16,000 wells to be drilled over a period of perhaps 13 years. While the Mexicans do not belong to OPEC, they are able to exact a high price ($13.10 per bbl.) for the oil that they sell, most of which goes to the U.S.; naturally they plan to step up production...
Ronald Wilson Reagan's conservatism reflects his Main Street origins. Son of a shoe salesman, he was reared in a succession of small Illinois towns: Tampico, where he was born on Feb. 6,1911, Galesburg, Monmouth and Dixon. As a freshman at 250-student Eureka College, a Disciples of Christ school, he was one of the leaders of a week-long student strike that forced college officials to rescind cuts in the educational program and loosen puritanical rules that forbade smoking, drinking and dancing. An indifferent student, he concentrated on debating, dramatics and football...
...film portrays three bums propsecting for gold in Mexico. Based on a novel by a mysterious Mexican author, B. Traven, the story is an adventure weaved so tightly it becomes allegory. But such a description hides the style of the film. Its portraiture, not just of characters but of Tampico and the bum's life, is as skillful as could be, and the mood ranges from harsh humiliation of Bogart by Alfonso Bedoya, the bandit chief, to dreamy paradise that Walter Huston finds...