Word: driller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This season, more than 10 million taxpayers will go to H. & R. Block with all the gusto of visiting the dentist. So it is rather appropriate that Henry Bloch, 56, the chief executive and prime-time TV pitchman, looks like a small-town tooth driller. He is a direct, plain-spoken Midwesterner in a brown suit and brown shoes, the type of fellow for whom the word unpretentious was invented. For his prodigious charities and civic good works, fellow citizens named him Mr. Kansas City, but he hides most of his trophies and awards in a small, dark closet...
...abruptly changed the situation by, among other things, extending federal price controls to so-called intrastate gas. That has made it just as profitable for a driller in, say, Oklahoma to sell his gas to a pipeline company that will transport it to Michigan as to a customer that will use it to generate electricity or heat a factory in Tulsa. This in turn has made available an estimated 1 trillion additional cubic feet of the fuel for sale in states such as Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey, where it is needed most. One trillion cubic feet is roughly equal...
...landowner. Other wells are sunk by individuals. A typical case is that of Fred Norman of Harborcreek, near Erie, Pa., who decided three years ago to follow the example of many of his neighbors and dig his own well. For $3,000 Norman hired a water-well driller, who struck gas at only 874 ft. Norman's cousin, a plumber, rigged a pipe to carry the gas into the house, where it fuels a hot-water heater, two heating stoves and a cooking stove. Norman estimates that the well has cut his fuel bill by as much...
...drilled where there has been no previous exploration) has been striking oil or gas-a very high success rate. "We are finding big gas fields in Oklahoma, western Wyoming and even Nevada, of all places!" says Marvin Davis. head of Denver's Davis Oil Co a big independent driller. "There is so much baloney coming out of Washington that we are running...
...means to indulge his tastes. After graduating from Oxford in 1963 with a degree in art, he opened a gallery in London. In 1968 he staged an exhibition of tableaux vivants called "The Americans." He imported an Alabama dirt farmer, a California fisherman, a stockbroker and an Oklahoma oil driller to stand around and represent themselves, but his pièce de résistance was a New York cab driver complete with yellow cab and nonstop monologue for anyone who ventured to enter it. Says Graham: "It seemed an interesting thing...