Word: derricked
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...gusher, leaped and spiraled 300 ft. in the air, Marvin Cole, 18, whose father owns the farm on which the well was drilled, told his version of the disaster. "The men's clothes," he said, "were saturated with oil that had been gushing over the top of the derrick and when the fire started the men ran back and forth through the woods, yelling and clutching at their flaming clothes. I would have given a million dollars if I hadn't heard those awful screams of the men in that fire. You could have heard them for half...
...crowd, estimated at a million persons, were 20 who fell into the hold of a dismantled barge, had to be hoisted out by derrick...
...well just beyond the southeastern city boundary, known as the C. E. Stout No. i. It blew in last week and in eight minutes, seeming well under control, produced 350 bbl. of oil. Then sand came with the driving liquid, cut through the valves, demolished the surmounting derrick. The well turned into the "wildest ever seen," much more powerful and dangerous than the nearby Mary Sudik, which last spring kept Oklahoma citizens alarmed for ten days (TIME, April 14). C. E. Stout No. 1 cast up daily about 100,000,000 cu. ft. of gas, about...
...Russia. When they were purchased they had just been removed from a small church near Leningrad and were destined to be melted for their bronze when the donor, who chooses to remain anonymous, bought them for Harvard. They will probably be hoisted into the tower by means of a derrick about the end of this month or in the early part of November...
...Oklahoma City's Wheeler School, one day last week, moppets who were drowsily planning some means of truancy had their reveries abruptly interrupted and realized. The monotonous tamping of an oil-well driller 150 ft. away suddenly ceased and Swuss-shh! high over the top of the derrick rose a column of dirty liquid, filling the air with a fine spray of oil, sand, gas. Gauged at 65,000 bbl. per day, the gusher was pronounced by oilmen the greatest high gravity producer within their recollections. As delighted as its owners were the children who swarmed out to witness...