Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impressively successful technique for hiking oil production is treatment with acid. In certain limestone formations, acid treatment not only "brings in" or increases production on new wells but rejuvenates old ones. Object of pumping in acid is to eat out new channels in the limestone. Hydrochloric acid is used, chemically inhibited so that it will not attack steel casing or tubing. The acid doctor pulls out the tubing and pumping equipment, runs the tubing back with a packer 15 ft. above the bottom so acid will not run up the hole, squirts...
...only acid doctor doing a brisk business in the eastern U. S. is James G. Vandergrift, 30, grandson of old "Captain" J. J. Vandergrift, a onetime river boatman who accumulated a large fortune in oil, land and steel, had a Pennsylvania town named for him. Energetic young James Vandergrift is the son-in-law of William T. Mossman, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. executive who made news copy in the last Presidential campaign because he is an uncle of Alfred Mossman Landon. Young James went to Ohio State, studied chemistry and geology, taught swimming, worked in the oil fields of Texas...
...liquid diet for five days, then ate sparing but well-rounded meals and was vigorously massaged, for Her Royal Highness was already muscular and it was felt that further exercise would simply make her more robust. She was given a light face peel, not the harsh so-called "acid peel" but a new European "mineral peel," to improve the texture of her skin. Her hair was thinned and "sculptured . . . widening and softening the waves and setting it closer to the back of her head." Finally makeup experts advised the Crown Princess "how to make the best of her naturally fine...
First wife: "He [my husband] used to come home cooked like a rare hamburger. There are no bathhouses at the mill. He'd be so choked with acid and gas fumes and soot that half the time he coughed up his breakfast...
...Terre Haute, Ind. in the 1870s one Jacob Baur ran a drugstore. When he needed soda water for his fountain, he would put some marble dust in a bottle, add sulphuric acid, capture the escaping carbon dioxide gas and pass it under pressure through water. In spare moments Jacob Baur worked on a machine to make carbonated water commercially. Soon he perfected the "coke" method now in use everywhere.* Raising $75,000, Druggist Baur went to Chicago, started the predecessor of Liquid Carbonic Corp. on Illinois Street just north of the Chicago River in 1888. For ten years he manufactured...