Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation all the more frustrating is that relief is tantalizingly close. Some 300 to 600 feet below the surface lies a geological formation known as the Stony Creek alluvial fan that has 13 million acre-feet of water. The town is seeking a federal grant of $5 million to drill as many as 30 wells by May. But bureaucratic red tape has tied up the town's application for federal assistance...
Some producers are also refusing to pump from wells already drilled. Jones Co. Ltd. of Albany, Texas, spent $4 million drilling four wells in Colorado that one partner, Jon Rex Jones, estimates could be delivering gas to customers in six months. But he insists that he will not connect them to a pipeline unless he is certain of getting $2 per 1,000 cu. ft. for the gas. In addition, producers in Houston readily tick off examples of fields where they are sure gas exists in commercial quantities, but where they will not drill. Reason: unless the interstate price goes...
...American astronauts walk on the moon). The Super Bowl has made other contributions to the culture too, footnotes not to be lost. In 1967, The Game was responsible for the release of 4,000 pigeons in flight over the crowd, an exercise that produced history's most massive precision drill: the simultaneous holding of souvenir programs over 63,036 heads. Other wonders: a 30-foot statue of a Green Bay Packer snorting smoke from three-foot-wide flared nostrils; a hot-air balloon that, too cold to climb out of the stadium, drifted into the stands and was torn apart...
Chafee fits the traditional mold of the Northeastern liberal Republican. He favors national health insurance, but also supports plans to drill for oil off the New England costs and a freeze on real estate taxes. His position as Secretary of the Navy under former president Nixon might hurt Chafee's chances, especially because the closing of Rhode Island navy bases in 1973--after Chafee left the government--seriously exacerbated the state's unemployment problems...
...major objective is to teach, drill and introduce the squad to the intracacies of the sport," he said...