Word: derrick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wells) on the 20th Century-Fox movie lot adjoining Beverly Hills. Trying to recoup from TV competition, the moviemen leased to oilmen who got permission to drill in 1953. Fox argued that the 280-acre lot was already zoned for manufacturing, and what was the difference between an oil derrick erected for a movie or one to drill? Furthermore, modern drilling avoids the noise and mess that blighted oil-happy Los Angeles in the '20s and brought a ban on drilling...
...Using injections of absolute alcohol near the spine, Dr. William S. Derrick has successfully cut the pain of 82 of 87 cancer patients at the University of Texas' M. D. Anderson Hospital. By blocking a section of the sensory nerve running from the affected part of the body to the brain -a tested technique-the injections relieve pain for up to six months, can easily be given again if the nerve returns to life. Advantage over narcotics: the injection is non-habit-forming, does not wear off quickly. Advantage over surgery sometimes performed to kill pain by cutting...
...become the biggest of all Gulf Coast oil booms. Thirty-five companies have sunk 171 producing wells deep into the treeless flat, now get around 24,000 bbls. daily from the field. Said one Houston newsman: "The whole town is on the verge of being overrun by derricks." Oil rigs are creeping within 100 yds. of the residences and businesses off Houston's primary north-south thoroughfare, South Main Street. One derrick stands 75 yds. from the roller coaster at Playland Park: another is within No. 7-iron distance (125 yds.) of the South Main Golf Center driving range...
...Derrick Wilde's 150-pound crew went through a very encouraging low-stroke time trial earlier this week. Wilde plans to race his eight at a lesser beat this week as it was generally felt that last Saturday's Goldthwait Cup loss to Princeton, by three-quarters of a length, was largely the fault of too high a clip...
Captain Ken pitched masterfully there-after, facing no more than four men perinning until the ninth, when with the game stached away, he loosened up and allowed four hits and two runs. He was bothered only by Derrick Newhall, who finished with four of the ten M.I.T. hits...