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...seven-year course are 10-to-13-year-old sons of Red soldiers, and any boy orphaned by the Germans. Their days are scheduled from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., with three leisure hours. During the war there are no holidays. Studies include tactics, firearms, military history, drill, automotives, fencing, skiing, dancing, and academic work. Graduates are in line for officer training...
Purpose of the change in organization, which will terminate on January 7, is to give drill training in various capacities to more of the upperclassmen who will be commissioned in February. With the addition of this group, the total number of Ensigns to leave the Unit within one year will be well over...
Company and platoon posts increase the total number of assignments to 45, thereby employing almost all of the top class at the same time. Rotation of positions among these men will be frequent, according to the announcement made Tuesday by Lt. Comdr. Harvey N. Marshall, USN (Ret.), Drill Officer of the Naval Science staff...
Horizontal Man. Ranney reasoned: Why not drill horizontally for oil, as miners dig coal? He designed a"Ranney-well" for oil mining - a vertical, concrete-lined shaft, sunk to the oil level, and a circular chamber at the bottom from which drillers might bore horizontally into the surrounding layer of oil sandstone. By drilling 24 holes, each radiating...
...Ohio Oil, the big U.S. oil companies swarmed over Polecat Bench. Last August Phillips Petroleum and Standard of Indiana's Stanolind paid the U.S. Government $1.407,500 for drilling rights on 262½acres of Federal land in Elk Basin-the highest price ever bid for the privilege of putting a drill bit into the ground. Last month Carter Oil, subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, bought out Denver's Minnelusa Oil Corp., the original discoverer of the Tensleep sands...