Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began when prisoners in each of the six compounds massed into a close-knit and obviously carefully planned military drill in defiance of camp rules. The prisoners formed ranks on top of a high terrace. Guards at the foot of the steep incline all around ordered them to break it up, but their only answer was a shower of stones. A brisk wind made tear gas useless. A warning volley of shots had no effect. Three waves of taunting and jeering prisoners, with arms locked, bore down steadily on the guards. Lieut. Colonel George Miller, island commander, ordered his guards...
...information out of our maps." On the other hand, he adds, "we found oil in the Williston Basin with the same men and the same methods with which we missed it in other places that looked just as good. In the end, to find oil, you still have to drill a well...
Bargains & Coups. After surveying the U.S. and Canada, De Golyer decided that the best prospects for Amerada were in Texas. But only U.S.-owned companies could drill there. So the Cowdray family split its 60% ownership in half, and let Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co. sell half the stock on the U.S. market at $26 a share.* Amerada went into Texas and found oil from the start. With their growing geophysical skill, Jacobsen and De Golyer were so confident of finding oil that when Louisiana Land & Exploration asked them to "shoot" (i.e., prospect) its holdings along the Louisiana...
...Weaver was an old driller who provided one of the industry's classic anecdotes. Some 40 years ago, his crew was about to start drilling in Mexico in a cow pasture, when one of the crew asked Weaver where to drill. Replied Weaver: "Watch the cows and drill where the first cow pie falls...
Alan S. Novick '55 was elected Treasurer, Sidney Singer, Jr. '54, Drill Master Carl M. Levanthal '54, Property Manager, and Alan Chandler '55, Secretary...