Word: derrick
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...Club is a small, roofless dock where islanders assemble for a beer or two after races. Three or four fairly primitive tennis courts have been rolled out in the woods on a couple of larger islands. One established resident is Lucien Wulsin, president of Baldwin Pianos, another is Dr. Derrick Vail, famed eye surgeon. Adlai Stevenson is a frequent visitor. Desbarats is, as a Chicago women's editor sighed, "very, very chic...
...Even in a country that has no great culinary pride, an 8-ft.-wide hamburger of soggy casein and canvas is artistically unappetizing." Noguchi's two-ton Sun had to be floated up the Seine on a barge, and Calder's two-ton stabile Falcon required a derrick to hoist it over the museum's walls...
Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Hancock Center will taper to less than half-size at the top, stand on splayed steel legs, and jut out from Chicago's skyline like an enormous, glass-enclosed oil derrick. But far more revolutionary than its façade will be its double-duty interior plan. From the 43rd floor down, it is an ordinary office building, complete with seven floors of ramp-access parking. But from the 44th floor up, it turns into an apartment house with its own indoor swimming pool, enclosed shopping promenade and a topfloor restaurant...
...dynamite blast at a trestle near Miami sent 27 cars of a 91-car freight tumbling down an embankment into a stream. Three hours later, the railroad's only wreck-clearing derrick car in southern Florida was blown up. Later in the week, four boys found 45 sticks of dynamite wired to the main line tracks near Titusville, dismantled them barely minutes before a 70-car freight highballed by. And at week's end, another dynamiting near New Smyrna Beach derailed 14 cars...
...growth of the oil and gas industry continued the trend. Numerous "struck-it-rich" oilmen moved their families to Dallas, far from the refineries of Houston and the oil derrick forests of East and West Texas. As the oilmen sought to stabilize their money, they invested in Dallas real estate, banks, and insurance companies. After Los Angeles and Houston, Dallas was the nation's fastest growing major metropolis between 1950 and 1960. As a result of their experience in promoting Dallas as the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Celebration, the city's merchants and bankers organized the Dallas Citizens...