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...stirring the patriotic fervor of church congregations to the point where they put up the cash for guns to arm the settlers. Smith raised a white war party of his own, outfitted them with breechclouts, knives, tomahawks; prescribed blackened faces, red-topped skulls, plenty of red war paint. Drill consisted in teaching his 50 men straight Indian tactics. Then nothing more was seen or heard of them for the rest of the summer. But no Indians were seen Or heard in the Conococheague Valley either. The Black Boys were beating the Indians at their own game. In the Spring Smith...
George Trivers held his story until he was well away from Annapolis: Instructors had treated him all right but midshipmen warned, "Nigger, stay away from us." During drill his toes were literally stepped on. In the gymnasium he could not pick up a basketball without having it snatched away. He went without sleep because the white boys pounded on the walls until the room seemed ready to cave in. Weak or strong, George Trivers decided enough was enough...
...golf club with a drill in the top of the shaft for boring a hole in which to insert a wooden tee when the ground is hard...
Last week at Grove Hill near Hellingly, Sussex, brawny workmen employed by Anglo-American Oil Co. began to drill with up-to-the-minute apparatus capable of boring more than a mile. Present with intense official interest was Lord Apsley, representing the Minister for Coordination of Defense. Some time in August, Britain will get another check on her home oil potential...
...bill for leasing State-owned oil land under the sea near Huntington Beach.* A legislative headache in California for years, this strip of tideland holds natural gas and oil worth about $500,000,000. At one time the State tried leasing it to oil companies which did their drilling from piers built out through the surf. Opposition came not from fishermen but from bathers who found oil scum all over their beaches. They raised such a hullabaloo that a law was passed forbidding all tideland drilling. Then in 1933 oil engineers devised a new method of drilling called "whip-stocking...