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...figure it would be something to tell my kids I was the first air cadet in the U.S." Sixteen hours and 45 minutes later, Bourque and 305 other members of the first class at the U.S. Air Force Academy were sound asleep after a double-timed day that included drill, a dedication ceremony, physical examinations (one cadet had measles), lectures, assignments, hazing, uniform issue and an allowance ($3 for the rest of July...
...special representative, Frank Plaza. Oilmen think that if oil is found in that country it will be in the sparsely settled jungle region in northern Petén. near the Mexican oilfields. Equipment will have to be flown or dragged in. Under the circumstances, Guatemalan requirements that each company drill at least one well every six months on each concession may be burdensome. Said Lionel Weidey, Jersey negotiator, "Guatemala's first barrel of export oil will cost $50 million...
CALIFORNIA TIDELANDS will soon get a bigger play from oil companies. Under a new bill signed by Governor Goodwin Knight, companies may drill from piers and barges, can lease most of California's 2,000,000 tideland acres on a cash-bonus-plus-royalty (a minimum 16 2/3% of production on proved offshore lands, 12½% on unproved fields) basis. Most exploration up to now has been by slant drilling from the shore...
Teams of WHO technicians are vaccinating Peruvian Indians, spraying Thai villages with DDT, training Pakistani girls in midwifery, teaching villagers in India to do a daily "twig-toothbrush" drill, using powdered charcoal as a dentifrice...
...York trade journal the glowing promise of oil, gas and sulphur in Spindletop, and flushed one reply. It was enough. Dalmatian-born Anthony Lucas, one time Austrian naval lieutenant who came to the U.S. to visit and stayed on to work as a mining engineer, agreed to drill for oil on Spindletop...