Word: basins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...discovery was the result of a dogged effort to see if new drilling techniques could coax more oil out of the Appalachian basin where U.S. oilmen brought in their first wells almost a century ago. The companies gambled on three wells-and got three dry holes. With the fourth, on a 9,000-acre lease (annual rental: 25? an acre) in the northeast corner of the state, he finally hit the jackpot. Benedum figures the well should produce at least 1,000 bbl. daily on a long-term basis. Within hours of the strike nine companies were in the area...
...function-not a style copied from the past. A frequent error is designing a bathroom too luxuriously. A bath is a bath, and not a luxury. Everything in the bathroom must work perfectly. When I wash my hands, my two forearms converge towards the middle of the basin, and what I want is not the vision of a rectangle, but a place to put down my soap and nailbrush-not up by my elbows but where my hands are going to be. So I design basins to converge towards the taps, the widest portion of the sides being close...
With the help of his wife, his daughters and a staff of twelve. Ponti not only designs everything from basins to buildings, but also puts out an arts and architecture magazine called Dornus (Latin for home), which has an international circulation of 40,000. "Father's enthusiasm is contagious," his daughter Letitia says, explaining how it all gets done. "If he is thinking of a new water basin, not one of us could just sit down and forget water basins. You just have to set your mind to what father is thinking." This in itself is a formidable assignment...
...freaks, a petroleum-like substance which, through geologic accident, failed to liquefy. The man who first saw the commercial possibilities of Gilsonite was Samuel H. Gilson, a U.S. deputy marshal in Utah and part-time prospector. One day in the 1880s while prospecting in eastern Utah's Uintah Basin, he found a crumbly, shiny, black substance which he mistook for a new form of coal. But when he tried to burn it, it melted. It was one of the world's largest known deposits of a natural pitch substance similar to what Noah supposedly used to caulk...
...cooling drink to wash down his dinner. In the creek sand that came up in his scooped hands, the thirsty Kaka tribesman saw the glint of yellow metal. He ran home and told his wife, who returned to the creek with a shovel and an enamel basin. Within six weeks, the shores of Mboscorro Creek were aswarm with men, women and children panning gold dust. Local French authorities moved in, set up a buying agency that had instructions to pay out 170 French African francs (about 80?) for each gram of the metal as it came from...