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Mississippi Mud. Heidelberg, a dirt-poor whistle stop (pop. 615) in the red-clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around...
...Bubbling." At 2 a.m. on Monday there was a wisp of gas and a roughneck snapped "Fires out!" The drill motors and the engines of the watchers' automobiles were silenced; greasy mud began to slop out of the two-inch tube onto the derrick floor. All night long the Cottingham belched and spluttered, while roustabouts scraped the mud into testing tanks...
...fleet and lean, 10,000 tons, with a 100,000-h.p. heart and fifteen 6-in. guns for her voice. Only her boxy stern, where she could carry eight planes, and the squat derrick cocked on her fantail, marred her clean lines. She was water-borne in the murky tide off Brooklyn in August 1938, while Japanese "fishermen" could still map soundings off U.S. coasts. She died in the early dark of July 7, 1943, deep in the Kula Gulf between New Georgia and Kolombangara in the South Pacific. Her pallbearers: the eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers which had gone...
...Toilet will be fixed at four corners of room. The buckets and cans will be placed. When filled up a guard will appoint a prisoner. The prisoner called will take the bucketes to the center of the room. The buckets will be pulled up by derrick and be thrown away...
...nest tried out at a Southern Oregon State Normal basketball game last month, the ballpark nest will be about ten feet above the ground, will give the base umpire a bird's-eye view of the infield. But Dumont's nest will be perched on a movable derrick, which, at the press of a button, will whisk the umpire to crucial spots...