Word: drill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pipe Dream. Near Altus, Okla., employees of the Sooner State Drilling & Producing Co. set up a drill rig, smiled with surprise as they struck a 4.000-bbl.-an-hour gusher a mere 2½ ft. beneath the earth's surface, checked the find more closely, then hastily removed their equipment, repaired the gap in the 16-in. pipeline owned by the Service Pipe Line Co. of Tulsa...
...Congress seemed to be in no mood to pay much attention to such talk. With the hup-two-three-four of a drill sergeant, the Democratic Congress shouted approval of first bills calling for spending well beyond Administration budget requests. Items...
...decide to take the course, there might be one problem. Most people drill on Monday afternoons as part of the course. You'd have to write a stiffer paper to make up for those sessions." He didn't comment on the possibility of girls drilling with the other students...
...school may have scamped the job. His horse's bronze legs stuck out from under the covering. Thus his true memorial is not an Oxford graduate's biography nor a Kipling's "lest we forget," but a last posting by dark-skinned men in British drill formation, who covered him up lest they remember...
...only teen-agers 17-18 1/2 were eligible to enroll in the RFA program, and a seven-and-a-half year Ready Reserve committment kept the enlistment rate down (other possible objections--parental opposition, low pay of $50 a month). A person in the Ready Reserve must attend 48 drill meetings a year, and a two week summer training period every summer for as long as he is a member...