Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been sold to a Tammany leader of Representative Bloom's district, Congressmen demanded an investigation of the commission, eliminated a $50,000 appropriation for it. Last week, although Representative Bloom protested that $35,000 for the new picture would include the frame and cost of hanging, Congressmen, a bit fed up, rejected the resolution...
...idea of making a record when the well was started. Encouraged by oil and gas strikes in a radius of 25 miles, they thought they would hit producing sand at 9,000 or 10,000 ft. They "spudded in" at midnight on June 21, 1937, using a 20-in. bit. In drilling for oil, the bit is carried on a shaft of hollow pipe, in 30-ft. lengths screwed together. A powerful steam engine on the surface spins the pipe and the bit. When a bit needs changing, all the pipe must be snaked out of the hole and then...
...first 500 ft. were like a "knife through cheese." There the driller switched to a 15¼-in. bit. At 9,500 ft., drilling speed had dropped to a foot an hour, and a new bit was needed every 25 ft. At 11,600 ft., the mud pressure was 9,000 lb. per sq. in. Apparently this huge force squeezed the water out of the mud into a porous sand formation at that depth, so that the mud caked and "froze" the bit collar. The drill pipe was fished out with difficulty but the collar was immovable. By means...
Within just two minutes and four seconds, Brown Bomber Louis gave all this elaborate and expensive machinery every bit of use it needed. When the books were balanced, NBC could count as maximum paper loss the profit on time charges for what might have been an additional broadcasting hour, came out with a profit on the flat rate Buick paid for the fight, the 15 minutes of time sold. Buick lost the potential advertising mentions planned at three or four round intervals, put on the air the longer opening and closing announcements. These totaled three minutes and 48 seconds...
This was a bit stronger than Mr. Stettinius had bargained for. As the steel industry quaked and the stockmarket paused over rumors of a definite pledge not to cut wages, Big Steel's young chairman announced flatly: "No official of the U. S. Steel Corp. has given any assurances that wage reductions will not follow the steel price reductions announced yesterday...