Word: derrick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dream was fine for the rig's inventors: Carl White Jr., master salesman, and Harry H. Franks, master mechanic. Their Franks Manufacturing Co. has sold 35 truck-mounted rigs to date at $50,000 apiece. The rig eliminated the cost ($650-$2,000) of putting up a drilling derrick, paid for itself by drilling 18 wells a year. It also set blond Larry O'Donnell, Shell Oil Co.'s chief mechanical engineer in the Texas-Gulf area, to thinking...
Three months ago they turned out their first unit: a portable derrick high enough (84 feet) to pull the double-jointed tubing of the deeper wells. One of its two sections telescoped inside the other to make it short enough to transport. Shell tried it, liked it, bought two at $20,000 apiece, ordered more...
Last week little Franks Manufacturing Co. had better than $200,000 worth of unfilled orders that had piled up in 40 days, an anticipated 1939 gross of $600,000, net of $150,000. Portable derricks seem to be catching on. Humble Oil Co. has ordered an initial two. If enough U. S. producers figure the same way, the derrick, ugly symbol of a fabulous industry, may disappear from the skyline...
...Georgiana Pratt, Chestnut HillLawrence K. Shaul Groen Tucker, Scranton, Pa.Harvey P. Sleeper Margaret Bassett, Rockville Center, L. I.Lawrence H. Sloane Janet Barrow, BrooklineGurdon H. Slosberg Jane Woronack, Brooklyn, N. Y.George L. Snow II Peggy Ann Cross, Wellesley HillsErnest C. Staber Betty Faye Smith, Kansas City, Mo.Richard B. Stedman Anne Derrick, Washington, D. C.Richard Stern Nancy McKelvie, Mt. Lebanon, Pa.Bayard C. Stone Jeanne Sipley, Elkins Park, Pa.John E. Tully Mary Grist, West RoxburyRichard N. Thomas Elinor Bennett, FalmouthCharles Thurlow III Constance Guitner, Columbus, OhioLeo W. Tobin Melva Whittemore, BostonLester H. Tobin Sylvia Goldsmith, Bridgeport, Conn.Philip W. Trumbull Peggy Seaver, New Bedford...
...world: Australia's Barney Worth, 26, 686 Ibs. (waistline: 7 ft.), and Joy, 27, 420 Ibs. (waistline: over 6 ft.). Because Worth sprained his ankle on the voyage from Australia, he could not mount the ship's gangway at Boulogne, had to be hoisted aboard by derrick, unloaded the same way. Asked how he met his wife, Barney Worth replied: "She came into my butcher's shop for some meat. She bought a lot, and I liked her idea of an appetite. ... It was love at first sight." An average Worth daily diet: 12 Ibs. of meat...