Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scientists and statisticians grew to greater importance. Probably the most important geological breakthrough came when Geologist Everette Lee DeGolyer used a reflection seismograph on the Seminole plateau, sending man-made sounds deep into the earth and gauging the echo to find "the rock beds humped up into a little dome which might be a trap for oil." In 1930 the well blew in at 8,000 bbl. a day. "This was the most important well drilled in America since Spindletop; reflection seismograph revolutionized prospecting for oil as completely as Spindletop had done...
...Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, Sinclair went to jail for six months for contempt of court and the Senate. Doheny was acquitted of charges to defraud the Government and sold control of his Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. holdings to Standard of Indiana. The ironic aftermath: instead of producing 130 million bbl. as the U.S. had predicted, Teapot Dome depleted itself after...
Change Is Decay. To the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hebrews, the world was an oyster, water below, water above (it seeped through the upper dome as rain), with the earth as snug and central as a pearl. But between the 6th and 3rd centuries B.C., the Greeks reached certain conclusions that were to be ignored for the next 2,000 years, e.g., that the earth rotated on its axis, that the sun was the center of the universe...
Copycat. He was fascinated by the main architectural attraction-a sleek geodesic dome of gold-coated aluminum panels, 200 feet in diameter, abuilding at one end of the site. "This dome is really something," he chuckled again and again. He posed for pictures with some Italian workmen employed on the project, and called to Thompson: "Come and join me. After all, the Italians are your allies...
...Buckminster Fuller's latest world of geodesic domes, already tapped by architects for everything from Union Tank Car Co.'s roundhouse to theaters, factories and banks, and soon to be used for the U.S. Trade Fair in Moscow. Bucky's latest, a 407-ft.-diameter dome for the Oklahoma City Arena, has acquired five saddle-shaped canopies, will shelter 15,000 spectators. Fuller confidently predicts a day when aircraft companies will turn out dome shelters for whole cities...