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Beaumont| City and port in southeastern Texas, USA, on the Neches River, 124 km/77 mi northeast of Houston; seat of Jefferson County; population (2000) 113,900. It is an oil-processing centre for the surrounding oilfields and a shipping point via the Sabine–Neches canal to the Gulf of Mexico; other industries include steel mills, shipbuilding, and paper production. Its port handles 15–20 million tonnes of cargo annually, mostly the shipment of petroleum products along the coast to the eastern seaboard of the USA. |
| Beaumont was first settled in the 1820s and incorporated as a city in 1881. In 1901, when a successful oil well was drilled at Spindletop Field, the modern oil industry began in the West. |
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| I suppose I have not been a great reader of the drama, and I do not know that I have ever greatly relished any plays but those of Shakespeare and Goldoni, and two or three of Beaumont and Fletcher, and one or so of Marlow's, and all of Ibsen's and Maeterlinck's. One evening, on the road leading to Beaumont, she came upon a wagon loaded with hay, and when she overtook it, she recognised Theodore. Of course, Beaumont was the real boss; but he lived in the rarefied atmosphere of some Olympian height from which he could distinguish nothing smaller than an international crisis or a split in the Cabinet. |