But, in 1967, American drillers working for Texaco discovered that two miles beneath the jungle floor lay abundant reserves of crude oil.
The problem: He didn't have the licenses or insurance that contracting companies require nor could he afford them and he had only a cursory knowledge of how to lay a floor.
Over-coats were strewn over chairs and gloves and leather flag pole holsters lay around the floor.
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Afterwards, Mr Philpott fell to the floor in the corridor and lay in the recovery position, the court was told.
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First Brad Friedel made a fantastic double save from the Nigerian, first denying his header and then a shot while the American lay on the floor.
The body of K. K. Harouni lay on the floor, wrapped in a white cloth, his jaw bound closed with a white bandage, the knot tied jauntily near one ear.
We offered to get a cot, but he said no thanks, folded his suit jacket inside out into a pillow, lay down on the floor and promptly fell asleep.
Inside, a team of paramedics were huddled around Falwell, who lay face up on the floor beside his desk.
Forensic witness Rosalyn Hammond said there was "potential" for material to be transferred while Mr Lawrence's jacket lay on a police station floor.
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At one point a young man lay on his back on the floor, languidly kicking his legs in the air.
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When he decided to lay out his canvasses on the floor (because they were so big), he was able to work the paintings from all sides.
One carpet, the size of a prayer rug, lay in the center of the tiled floor as if concealing an imperfection or some secret passage.
In an adjoining room, a file on Mr. Mehiri, bound in a green folder marked with the name of Libya's internal-security service, lay amid scores of others stacked in floor-to-ceiling shelves.
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After all, they laughed at him when he wanted to lay high-speed broadband cable across the ocean floor.
He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.
Thain confronted the floor traders and, bit by bit, convinced them that their future lay with digits.
It occupies a place of honor in the 1, 200-square-foot Rose Museum on the hall's second floor, not far from Fitzgerald's spectacles, the trowel used to lay Carnegie's cornerstone and most precious a ticket from the opening-night concert, May 5, 1891.
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Sims dropped to the floor after her miss, pulling her jersey over her face and kicking her legs as she lay flat on her back.
Another bear lay in the back of a pickup truck in the driveway and four others rested on the garage floor.
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