Word: derricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faulty Caisson. Laced by giant cross girders and faced with bronze-tinted glass and ebony-colored aluminum, the John Hancock structure tapers dramatically upward in the Chicago skyline like a flat-topped oil derrick. The first 43 floors are designed largely for commercial use. There will be five floors for a bank, a brokerage office and retail shops. Above that come seven floors of parking space-enough for 1,200 autos-and then 28 floors of office space, which will add at least 7% to Chicago's supply. There is a 44th-floor "sky lobby," consisting of a barber...
...more than a year, a sort of rough neck regatta has been churning the wa ters of the Gulf of Mexico off Loui siana. It is composed of workboats, tugs, barges and even helicopters, and is crewed by hard-hat engineers, welders and derrick workers. Along the Gulf, a group of companies have strung out 1,000 miles of pipeline in a race for some of the richest U.S. natural-gas deposits...
...Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
WILLIAM PAUL DERRICK...
...unprofitable New York Shipbuilding Corp., the firm's profits and dividends have been dropping; in 1966, there was a loss of $740,000 and no dividend at all. To halt the drain, Wolfson sold off a paint company, a small steel mill, the company's derrick division and a small shipyard, but the future seems so stormy that liquidation may be the only solution. Along with its losses on operations last year, Merritt-Chapman also added a $3,233,000 "special charge" to the books as a provision against losses if other properties have to be sold...