Word: derrick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia. When they were purchased they had just been removed from a small church near Leningrad and were destined to be melted for their bronze when the donor, who chooses to remain anonymous, bought them for Harvard. They will probably be hoisted into the tower by means of a derrick about the end of this month or in the early part of November...
...Oklahoma City's Wheeler School, one day last week, moppets who were drowsily planning some means of truancy had their reveries abruptly interrupted and realized. The monotonous tamping of an oil-well driller 150 ft. away suddenly ceased and Swuss-shh! high over the top of the derrick rose a column of dirty liquid, filling the air with a fine spray of oil, sand, gas. Gauged at 65,000 bbl. per day, the gusher was pronounced by oilmen the greatest high gravity producer within their recollections. As delighted as its owners were the children who swarmed out to witness...
...last 100 feet of the 225-foot power plant chimney now being demolished may be knocked down by heavy weights swung by a derrick, it was disclosed yesterday by the American Wreeking Company. Another method which the company may use to topic the pile is known as "burning under". Five wooden blocks, soaked with gasoline, are inserted in the base, the surrounding bricks being removed. Two of the blocks are then ignited, and the stack falls...
...Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin of Hudson Motor Car Co., and other Grosse Pointe, Mich, socialites (Buhls, Gardners, Geytmrns) have built a $500,000, 608-seat cinema theatre To the opening last week came Radioman Graham McNamee, Actress Elsie Ferguson, Actress Vivian Tobin. Name: "Punch & Judy Theatre," Architect: Robert 0. Derrick, who planned the Ford Museum at Dearborn. Admission on the opening night...