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Fireflooding. New methods may produce even better results. One new meth od, called fireflooding, uses an electric coil in a well shaft to ignite the oil. Air is then pumped in to fan the blaze. The moving wall of fire thins the oil so that it flows ahead of the blaze to another well...
Unlike coal-mine fires, an underground oil blaze does not seep through to the surface, can be extinguished by cutting off the air supply. In a field near Palestine, Texas, when waterflooding failed, fire was used. Production in one well alone jumped from...
Symington: I had a dream last night. The good Lord came to me and, in a blaze of white light, he told me he was going to make me President...
...CHICAGO FIRE. Half the West Side bursts into flame every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...
...Prospects. In Bloomfield, Conn., fast-talking Real Estate Broker Thomas J. Larkin finished his spiel about the house, wrapped up the deal in the living room while firemen were extinguishing a blaze in the basement...