Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hawley system to find these provinces was to "drill all over hell." Confidently oilmen sat back and waited for Tenderfoot Hawley to go broke. By last week there was little chance that this would happen. In Hocking County, Ohio, Wildcatter Hawley had brought in a new well, this time gas. But he had high hopes of drilling deeper and striking...
...Province. But his big strike came last month, after he made a deal with the Carter Oil Co., a Jersey Standard subsidiary, to drill a 15,000-acre tract in Montana, near Roundup (pop. 2,645). Every Rocky Mountain geologist had thumbed it down. But Hawley struck oil on the west side of the tract. Hawley and the Carter Co. promptly divided their holdings in the area, Carter taking the western half and selling the eastern half of the area to Hawley. Smartly he moved his rig to the eastern side. There he brought in a 5,000-bbl. well...
Last week he turned up at the fighting fronts in a light grey flannel bush coat, khaki drill breeches, polo boots, Sam Browne belt, and an ancient stern-visored guardsman's cap, which he has clung to for years: it has been rebuilt three times. Neither at Dunkirk nor anywhere since then has he bothered to wear a steel helmet...
Tone's exactress sister-in-law (Binnie Barnes) plays the camp circuit, drops in for lunch. Tone's father (Henry Stephenson) hasn't time to finish dessert before he's due for Home Guard drill...
...also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better than pleasantly, mediocre but for the unshakable British talent for investing bit-players at telephones, extras at lifeboat drill, and even the leading players with vitality, intelligence and a nodding acquaintance with actual life...