Word: derricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corner of his 286-acre farm, Joe joined a crowd of several hundred oil scouts, brokers, geologists and gawking neighbors around the tin-hatted crew working the rig on a 128-ft. oil derrick. As Joe and they watched, there was a cough and a sputter; then a stream of oil shot out 30 ft. and poured into the mud sump pit. Joe York rubbed his hands in the oil, smelled it and smiled. "I guess I won't have to go back to milking those Jersey cows," he said. The oil scouts took but one look...
Peter A. Rubel, Richard T. Povill, and Daniel J. Young of Thayer; Derrick M. Wilde and Calhoun Dickenson of Holworthy; William W. James of Mower; Clayton L. Sommers of Massachusetts; Thomas W. Hoya and Richard E. Reed of Weld; Ernest T. Berkeley, Jr., of Lionel; Stephin L. Rudin, Waverley R. Beall, and Richard E. Johnson of Mathews...
...account "climbed a few feet, stalled, then settled to the ground. My stopwatch showed that the machine had been in the air just 3½ seconds." It was not until nearly a year later, on a cow pasture near Dayton, Ohio, that the Wrights used the derrick (see cut) catapult method which Reader Hatch describes...
Gasoline-powered cages will travel through the structure in coming months, raising bricks, boards, and concrete to high points in the steel framework. At the top of the shaft workmen are currently attaching a special derrick for distributing the materials...
...outer courts, prepping for a crack at next week's singles championship, were some 60 players-about 25 of them with foreign accents. England had sent Tony Mottram and Derrick Barton. France's Robert Abdesselam, Czechoslovakia's outstanding southpaw Jaroslav Drobny were there, along with India's entire Davis Cup team (Misra, Mohan & Mehta) and Sweden's and Belgium's best...