Word: derrick
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...Airport at the mouth of the muddy Tiber, 15 mi. outside the city, to see the planes arrive. As usual Balbo's triad landed first to a deafening frenzy of cheering, whistle-blowing, bell-clanging, cannon-shooting. The General taxied his plane alongside an improvised receiving stand (a derrick platform) where stood Benito Mussolini, Crown Prince Umberto, the King's aviator-cousin the Duke of Aosta, U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long. He stood on his plane's thick wing for a moment, arm outstretched in salute. Then he leaped ashore to be warmly kissed by Il Duce...
...piano box shanty under an oil derrick during an oil boom at Cherry Grove, Warren County...
...three days 90% of the State's prorated wells had ceased to flow. Oil operators offered no resistance to the Murray order. Not a single shot was fired. So tame was the oil war that two young guardsmen were caught dozing under a Sinclair derrick. But despite martial law, economic law held its ground and the price of Oklahoma oil did not rise above...
Heroes of this and many another well fire were the famed Kinley brothers of Tulsa-Myron, 35, and Floyd, 28-professional wild well tamers. Day after the Gladewater holocaust they flew to the scene of the disaster, began directing men in asbestos suits to clear away the derrick wreckage, kept white hot by the billowing flames. After the preliminary work, during which Brother Myron broke his leg, a sloping track of steel pipe was pushed to the well's mouth. Hobbling around on crutches. Brother Myron helped Brother Floyd load an insulated barrel with 70 quarts of nitroglycerine...
...Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair flew over from Dallas, 110 mi. to the west, to see his costly cauldron. He found the entire countryside shrouded in haze. Workmen were busy clearing away 20 acres of pine forest surrounding the flaming gusher, trying to remove bits of the white-hot derrick and machinery. There was not much that Oilman Sinclair, always popular with his men, could do but assure speedy pensions to the families of the victims...