Word: derricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...past three years, moreover, the cost of locating and drilling for oil has increased enormously. Prices of derrick steel, heavy machinery, pumps, well casing and labor are higher-and wells are deeper. The average investment in all wells drilled in the U.S. last year was $40,928 against...
...trade accord with Mexico which the State Department has been negotiating for months was all ready to be signed and sealed. Then Standard Oil heaved a derrick in the works. One hinge on which the agreement turned was that U.S. oil companies accept a settlement for their Mexican properties, which were expropriated in 1938. Standard Oil refused to settle...
...about 6% over 1939. Yet oilmen still had small reason to hope that rising U. S. consumption would knock the hump out of gasoline's inventory curve. Nor were war and winter alone to blame. More important than either in oil's overproduction is an unlovely derrick forest in Southern Illinois...