Word: derricks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unique hero was Reat I. Medcalf, of Oklahoma City. Seeing a fellow workman totter from a derrick 77 ft. above him, he stepped under the hurtling figure, caught him in his arms, was unhurt...
...metal shields and a heavy barrage of water, start to work their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam on the blaze, snuffed it out. Grim and taciturn, the Kinley boys glanced up as the explosion took place...
...Millicent stole a jade figurine out of a Hindoo temple, its baleful influence followed him to Sussex where, one evening, he was discovered lying across his desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait of the late Millicent...
...Saint-Brieux, France, one Victor Rousoult was walking along the docks where he worked, when a dangling hook caught in the ring on his finger. The derrick from which the hook dangled hoisted ring, finger and Rousoult 100 feet into the air. Comrades saw, shouted. The derrick lowered Rousoult to the ground. When he was within a few feet of landing, his finger tore...
Docket number 127 is the Beale Club (Derrick, Rogers) versus the Westengard Club (Schmidt, McGinnis). The meeting will be in Austin Hall East with D. E. Terrill 3L as chief justice...