31.   Penney bought a house two lots away from the Cheney home, when the oil boom brought him from Oklahoma.

32.   Some oil boom has been stored inside Coos Bay.

33.   The buoy tender Bittersweet, out of Woods Hole, had loaded its deck with oil booms and other environmental containment equipment before steaming to the scene.

34.   The city covets the jobs that will come with the oil boom but also wants to keep unspoiled parts of its coast for leisure and tourism.

35.   The collapse of the Soviet Union seven years ago sparked the last great oil boom of this century.

36.   The days when cotton was king here have long since passed, and now the oil boom has ended, too.

37.   The oil boom has transformed Yopal from a sleepy town that lacked electricity five years ago into a raucous city.

38.   The oil boom was over, and there had been a dramatic overbuilding of drilling rigs.

39.   The tiny African nation of Equatorial Guinea is hoping an oil boom will bring millions of dollars in foreign investment to fund economic development.

40.   Then the oil boom bottomed out and wealthy Mexico City residents quit using Acapulco has their personal playground.