Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feet down in the Burgan sand at Wafra. Oil began flowing plentifully the next year, and production had doubled by 1956, when Getty made his second trip to the zone. He clambered over the rigs, walked tirelessly over the sands. A good practical geologist, he decided to drill in the neglected Eocene formation, down only 1,200 ft. Eocene oil can be pumped cheaper and faster than other oil ($30,000 and one week to drill a well, v. $200,000 and six weeks), is ideally suited for refining into heavy fuel oil. But oilmen laughed at the idea that...
...born Kenneth H. Redmond, 62, who succeeded colorful, scrappy old Samuel Zemurray as United Fruit's president in 1951. To Redmond the decree is a green light for plans on the shelf since 1954. Last year United Fruit leased a million-acre concession from the Panamanian government to drill for oil; it hopes now to look over other mineral resources in Central America. After the announcement last week, investors sent United Fruit from 39⅝ to 43 on the New York Stock Exchange. They noticed, as President Redmond points out, that no provision of the decree materially affects United...
...Monroe, Wis. radiologist who is convinced, after years of peering at tangled viscera on X-ray plates, that beauty is not only all around him but inside him. Taking inspiration from the delicately twined tubes, sacs and ducts he photographed, Zach set to work with a dentist's drill and clear plastic, began passing out three-dimensional relief models of their innards to his friends...
...will continue to let Universal Consolidated Oil Co., which is pumping crude from underground stations that cannot be seen at street level, and which has paid more than $500,000 in royalties to Fox since the lot's first deep well was brought in late in 1955, drill...
With a lead of 13 points and only three minutes to go, Coach Bruce Munro re-inserted his first team for a ball-control drill, obviously geared for the more difficult games to come...