Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were lifted at one lift from deep water to the surface; the pontoons used on the F-4 were wholly unsuitable for deep water and constituted the major trouble on the S-51 job; indeed the salvage officer on the F-4 himself said they were "unmanageable" even on his shallow water job and expressed surprise that we succeeded in doing anything with them in deep water...
...form of powerful trade associations, was to be pampered back to economic health while the little independent manufacturer, for whose protection the Anti-Trust laws were first passed, was to become an outlaw. On the surface and in most official explanations voluntary partnerships were called for but deep down in the new law were large penal powers which gave a determined Government the whip hand over the toughest business...
...first submarine ever raised from the open ocean, and no other ship of any kind has before or since been raised from such a depth. TIME errs, therefore, in saying, "There were no precedents, no equipment for raising a 1,000-ton submarine from deep water in the open...
...bequest of $200,000 was left Weinstein provided the latter survived him. Police medical examiners were hard put to tell which victim had predeceased the other. Since neither body was robbed, it was supposed that some obscure revenge had motivated the crime. A bootlegger's hideout, discovered deep in the same old building, darkened the mystery further. Old Ridley was a hard man to deal with, dealt severely with his tenants. A clue which fitted nowhere was the discovery that Weinstein had been secretly married for eight years to a woman calling herself Mrs. Jack Lee. And the bullets...
...great bugaboo has been the unbelievably prolific East Texas oil field. It was discovered in 1930, a huge underground lake of oil, 32 miles long and three miles wide. Wildcatters and great oil companies had soon planted 10.000 derricks over it, drilled 10,000 shafts 3,600 ft. deep to tap the subterranean flood. As the oil spouted through 10,000 pinholes in the earth's crust it greased the skids of oil prices. Tighter & tighter the industry drew its proration rules but prices fell to 10?. Then the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the wells with...