Word: drill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allies are sharply split. Last week the split widened. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, with the backing of the Pentagon, refused to okay a deal between Texas' Dresser Industries, Inc. and the Soviet Ministry of Trade. Dresser wanted to import what it called a revolutionary turbine oil-well drill developed by Russian engineers. In return it would agree to ship the Russians some of its own rotary rock drill bits, instruct them in their use. But Commerce, State and Defense Department experts decided that Dresser would get nothing but an unproved tool while giving away the U.S. oil industry...
...rumored drill, a practice safety measure for protection against a hydrogen bomb attack, would have evicted students from the banks of the Charles. Others would have been forced to postpone exams to a future date...
Through the marshes of southern Louisiana 14 months ago, an oil-drilling rig was towed into position and a 20-in. drill casing firmly planted in the muck. Fort Worth Oil Drillers Sid Richardson and Perry Bass, in a joint project with Freeport Sulphur Co. and Houston Oilman John W. Mecom, started drilling with high hopes of tapping a new field near Louisiana's rich Lake Washington field. But as the drill bit downward-to 5,000 feet, 10,000 feet, 15,000 feet-their hopes sank as fast as their costs rose. Drillers had to battle hole temperatures...
...courses outside the field are to be taken in the sophomore and junior years. While taking the outside courses, students will have to take regular outdoor drill for the first half of the term--15 hours...
...after conducting a personal on-the-scene inquiry. Congressmen cried for an investigation into the basic training methods that have made the U.S. Marine Corps an elite. And. attended by Marine honor guards, off to home cities went flag-draped coffins bearing the bodies of the six men that Drill Instructor McKeon's zeal and stupidity had left in the water of Ribbon Creek...