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Word: boilers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tryouts for parts in the Radcliffe freshman plays, "The Pot-Boiler" and "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," will be continued in Agassiz from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex '53 Continues Play Tryouts Today | 3/14/1950 | See Source »

...Nightmare. Stunned by the dreadful roar of the collision, Mrs. Evelyn Mc-Tootle, proprietress of the nearby Sunset Inn Bar & Grill, thought "a boiler was blowing up." She ran out to the street. A conductor jumped out of one of the trains and yelled at her to turn in an alarm. Mrs. McTootle did as she was told, then filled a cooking pot with water and made for the wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Late Train Home | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...bought a derrick, got an ancient, 3,000-ft. East Texas drilling rig and a leaking secondhand boiler and boldly set out to sink a 6,000-ft. hole in Hardin County. He drafted his father as a tool pusher, his younger brother William as a laborer. It was agonizing toil. Sand ruined the rubber rings in his pumps every half hour; each time, he dismantled the mechanism and installed new ones. The "coffee pot" rig broke down endlessly. He says: "We might as well have been drilling with a high-heeled boot." It took six months to sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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