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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week came what looked like the biggest strike yet. Out in the sweeping range lands west of Calgary, within sight of the Rockies, a Shell Oil Co. test drill ing crew ran into a terrific gas concentration (a sign...
...well was only a few miles from the site of an earlier test, where a Shell crew had drilled down to a record-shattering 12,056 ft. and spent $600,000 without striking oil. But oilmen were sure they had something this time. In Ottawa, Dominion geologists admitted cautiously: the Jumping Pound strike is "extremely important." In Alberta, the Shell Co. had already grabbed up drilling and royalty rights on a reported 73,000 acres near Jumping Pound. Other firms, U.S. and Canadian, were pouncing on whatever they could...
Forty-five minutes after he had plunged from the carrier, Lieut. Ladwig was pulled aboard a destroyer-after three of its crew had slipped from its net and had been fished out. The destroyer's skipper, noticing that Ladwig's breath was fumy with gasoline, ordered the ship's smoking lamp doused (i.e., "no smoking"). Only then did Ladwig feel it was safe to utter a long "Whew...
...Anderson crew began looking for some other target, found a fine fat factory in Hamamatsu (55 mi. south of Nagoya) and plunked their bombs squarely among its buildings. Then came the letdown. Back on Saipan, Anderson reported his emergency measure-and got a big laugh. The plant was a musical instrument factory...
...Returning from Paramushiro, the pilot of a twin-engined Navy Ventura bomber found that flak had holed the hydraulic-pressure system; there was not enough fluid left to lower the landing flaps. A machinist's mate used the crew's hoard of orange juice and coffee to refill the hydraulic reservoir. It worked...