Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conventional oil drilling is vertical: drill ers bore a narrow shaft down through the layer of sedimentary rock in which the oil is stored. From the small shaft surf ace they usually get only about 20% of the oil actually present...
Horizontal Man. Ranney reasoned: Why not drill horizontally for oil, as miners dig coal? He designed a"Ranney-well" for oil mining - a vertical, concrete-lined shaft, sunk to the oil level, and a circular chamber at the bottom from which drillers might bore horizontally into the surrounding layer of oil sandstone. By drilling 24 holes, each radiating...
Hard Lines. Tokyo reports bore down heavily on U.S. home-front difficulties, relating that food distribution had been taken over by "gangsters whose experience in the Prohibition days is proving of great value." Takamoto Hosokawa, onetime New York correspondent for the newspaper Asahi, looked hopefully to U.S. political turmoil next year: "In the event Roosevelt is eliminated," said he, "there will be an estrangement in relations with England, and a darkening state will develop internally...
...Progress. Russia's Pokryshkins did not save her, as the R.A.F. saved Britain in 1940. They could not, for in the vastness of Russia's plains the infantryman and the artilleryman bore the biggest burden. But Pokryshkin and his comrades helped to win an uphill fight for the control of Russia's skies, contributed much to this year's victories...
Donald Wills Douglas is a tall, good-looking, brown-eyed, brown-haired, brown-tweedy sort of man, who acts as if he doesn't really believe in the future of aviation. He dislikes flying, and flies as rarely as possible. Prophets of "the coming Air Age" bore him. Two examples of his attitude toward aviation's future...