21.   He traces his sense of style to a maverick grandfather who ran gambling and prostitution houses during the Texas oil boom.

22.   Hogan was known to have made considerable money in the new postwar oil boom.

23.   It is nothing on the level of a typical African capital but enough that every day recalls the activity seen only on payday before the oil boom.

24.   It took Texas years to recover from the end of the oil boom.

25.   More important, it is the first success story of what could become the first great oil boom of the next century.

26.   My mother has a color photograph on her wall of Kilgore in those days, when derricks outnumbered trees in this capital of the East Texas oil boom.

27.   Now, however, Colombia is in the midst of an oil boom and has become the third largest oil producer in Latin America, behind Mexico and Venezuela.

28.   Oil boom brings new business to hotel-industry, manufacturing, petrochemical and power sectors.

29.   Oil booms were deployed quickly to contain a small slick that spread as the vessel was brought to the surface.

30.   Osborn was a part of the oil boom in Abilene.