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The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas.
During 2014–2015, OPEC members consistently exceeded their production ceiling, and China experienced a slowdown in economic growth. At the same time, US oil production nearly doubled from 2008 levels and approached the world-leading " swing producer " volumes of Saudi Arabia and Russia, due to the substantial long-term improvement and spread ...
36th Division ("Texas Division" or "Arrowhead Division") (Texas and Oklahoma) 18 July 1917 10 October 1918 Maj. Gen. Edwin St. John Greble Maj. Gen. William R. Smith: Meuse–Argonne: 37th Division ("Buckeye Division") (Ohio) 26 August 1917 4 August 1918 Maj. Gen. Charles Treat Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Gaston Maj. Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth: Meuse ...
The surge in Texas crude oil production over the past few years has been truly phenomenal. According to U.S. Energy Information Administration data, the state's oil production surged to 2.7 ...
During World War I, these switchboard operators were sworn into the Army Signal Corps. [76] This corps was formed in 1917 from a call by General John J. Pershing to improve the worsening state of communications on the Western front. Applicants for the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit had to be bilingual in English and French to ...
During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs that had either been vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war, or had been created as part of the war effort. The high demand for weapons and the overall wartime situation resulted in munitions factories collectively becoming the largest employer of American women by ...
OPEC members had been perplexed by how quickly U.S. companies had recovered from losses during an OPEC-initiated price war between 2014 through 2016 that had led to dozens of U.S. energy bankruptcies.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."