Word: driller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denver's own Denver-Julesburg basin, where oil is found at such relatively shallow depths (3,000 -6,500 ft.), is a driller's paradise. Sterling, Col., where British-American oil brought in the discovery well two years ago, has since jumped in population from 7,470 to more than 10,000, and 160 more producing wells have been brought...
...land where slaveholding is still legal-are a few Westerners, 45 Americans and 625 Britons, representing the Kuwait Oil Co. (a joint operation of Gulf Oil Corp. and Britain's Anglo-Iranian). Typical of the Americans are the Charles Jacksons of Cairo, Ill. Jackson, a weather-beaten well driller, runs his rig with the help of six Kuwaitis who are paid on a scale ranging from $1 to $2 a day. Jackson worries about his Kuwaitis: "They work all right if you watch them, but if you go away you come back and find them asleep...
...Bahrein's little Sheik, Sir Sulman bin Hamad al Khalifah, who came to the throne in 1942, is a good ruler. He looks like Jordan's late King Abdullah, has the same dignified mien and dancing eyes. Sulman's memory is phenomenal: he remembers which oil driller's wife is having a baby. He takes all the newspapers, listens regularly to the Arabic radio broadcasts. When the Moscow radio calls Belgrave a "dictator" Sulman chuckles, twits his $9, 600-a-year adviser. From time to time, in his Rolls-Royce with a coat of arms designed...
...been suckled with the sound of oil rigs in his ears; his father, an itinerant oilfield workman named William McCarthy, came to Spindletop as a driller, and Glenn was born there in 1907. One of his earliest memories concerns the great Gulf Coast hurricane of 1915. As the storm approached, the elder McCarthy galloped to the field in a two-wheeled gig; Glenn went with him and crouched in the roaring darkness as derrick after derrick crashed into wreckage...