Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Conventional oil drilling is vertical: drill ers bore a narrow shaft down through the layer of sedimentary rock in which the oil is stored. From the small shaft surf ace they usually get only about 20% of the oil actually present...
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...
High Time. In Summerfield, Kans., pupils at the Summerfield School did their monthly fire drill, filed outdoors, took a look at the roof, promptly called the fire department...