Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dressing-Room Drill. On his birthday they were just rehearsing for Toscanini's opera broadcast of the season-the riproaring, tearfully tender music of Verdi's Aida. The music meant something special to the maestro. He had conducted it in his Rio de Janeiro debut almost 63 years ago as a beardless bambino, and in his U.S. debut at Manhattan...
...specialty as pulling teeth or straightening them. Washington Dentist Raymond Herndon, 36, specializes in jittery patients. More than half of the patients he treats are the kind that other dentists dread: alcoholics, "uncooperative" children, adults with neuroses or psychoses, people who begin to squirm at the sound of the drill...
Since they were forced out of Mexico in 1938, most major U.S. oil companies have shown little desire to go back in, despite repeated invitations. Last year, Cities Service Co., the only one that had not left Mexico, took on a job of drilling new wells. But otherwise, the best deal that Antonio J. Bermudez, boss of Pemex, Mexico's oil monopoly, could make was with J. Edward Jones, a small U.S. oil promoter, to drill 100 wells (TIME, Sept. 22, 1947). He drilled...
This week, Bermudez, still trying to get U.S. know-how to help his inefficient monopoly, landed a bigger fish. He signed a contract with a new company, the Mexican American Independent Co., giving it a twelve-year concession to drill wells along Mexico's tidelands near Yucatan and elsewhere. The new company was formed when Edwin W. Pauley, California oilman and good friend of President Truman, joined up with Ralph K. Davies. of the American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, Sept. 1, 1947) and Samuel B. Mosher of California's Signal Oil & Gas Co. The new Pauley company would...
About his future--for veterans are a sometime thing, after all-Monro is not talking. He would like to write a novel someday, and not about the war, either. He drops in at the Armory every week for whatever sort of reserve drill they give full Commanders in the Navy. And he talks, a bit wistfully, of the little vacation he's going to take "after everything gets squared away." Beyond this, his plans are vague, except for the assurance that he "aims to be useful...