Word: capping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Announced last week, Canada's record breaker took eight months to drill, augers down more than 12,000 ft. through a thick cap of Devonian rock. The gas-bearing section is 551 ft. thick, which indicates a reservoir of major proportions and almost an embarrassment of riches for Canada. Before the find, estimated Alberta natural gas reserves stood at 21 trillion cu. ft., which must now be revised upward. The new well alone could supply all the gas the new Trans-Canada pipeline can pump when it goes into operation late this year...
...cadets rushed to get ready for an inspection, top academy officers were worrying over the kind of details that always seem to interrupt the textbook version of military precision. The dining room chairs (with under-seat cap racks) had not yet arrived; two colonels and two majors knocked their heads together over the problem of where the cadets would place their caps during supper (solution: on extra tables and under chairs). And the Roman Catholic chaplain was hunting for the culprit who installed a pingpong table in his temporary chapel. "It's organized confusion," moaned one light colonel...
...centuries. Groveling in the dust, the chiefs render homage to the nobles and then in turn take homage from the multitudes around. When all that is done, drums begin to roll, and a plump young man of 28 suddenly appears, dressed in a bright red cap and robe. To 1,700,000 Mossi, the young Moro Naba is the incarnation of the sun on earth, and he rules through a court more rigid in its ritual than that of Louis XIV, the Sun King. Each week, after the nobles have abased themselves before him, the Moro Naba heads...
Heedless of acres of bikini-clad flesh, Riviera tourists paid boatmen $10 a head to ride from Monte Carlo to nearby Cap-d'Ail. The lure: a possible chance of spying vacationing Sir Winston Churchill propped up on the shore in shorts, wide-brimmed straw hat, open-necked shirt and cigar...
...plane teams, dropping the first fire bombs on the inflammable architecture of the East, coaching his sky raiders to dive, squirt, pass and run. He lived on rice and red ants, coffee and cigarettes; he dwelt in mud and bamboo; he dressed in shorts and a billed, battered, nondescript cap. "Old Leatherface,'' the Chinese fondly called him, and guarded his precious store of gasoline...