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...first 500 ft. were like a "knife through cheese." There the driller switched to a 15¼-in. bit. At 9,500 ft., drilling speed had dropped to a foot an hour, and a new bit was needed every 25 ft. At 11,600 ft., the mud pressure was 9,000 lb. per sq. in. Apparently this huge force squeezed the water out of the mud into a porous sand formation at that depth, so that the mud caked and "froze" the bit collar. The drill pipe was fished out with difficulty but the collar was immovable. By means...
...performing prodigies, soon was raised by Bolshevik puffs to the status of a "Hero of Labor." Russians read that Stakhanov increased his output of coal five-fold by "Stakhanovism." What he did was 'to organize a gang of three miners with such teamwork that Stakhanov, the skilled pneumatic driller, was able to spend all his time drilling out coal, while the others did the propping and panting. By this means the three got out enough coal in a six-hour shift to raise their perman output about five-fold of what it had been when it was a case...
...side doors. Using seats to bridge the gap between the tracks, the subway's president supervised the herding of passengers through the local train safely to the station platform. Afterwards President Hedley explained: "My actions were unnecessary. My men are well-trained and know their business." A pneumatic driller had pierced an I. R. T. power conduit near City Hall, causing short circuits, fire, and a four-hour paralysis of one-half of Mr. Hedley's subway system. Two thousand passengers were led choking and gasping from dark stalled trains below ground. Smoke and bursts of flame shot...
...Oklahoma City's Wheeler School, one day last week, moppets who were drowsily planning some means of truancy had their reveries abruptly interrupted and realized. The monotonous tamping of an oil-well driller 150 ft. away suddenly ceased and Swuss-shh! high over the top of the derrick rose a column of dirty liquid, filling the air with a fine spray of oil, sand, gas. Gauged at 65,000 bbl. per day, the gusher was pronounced by oilmen the greatest high gravity producer within their recollections. As delighted as its owners were the children who swarmed out to witness...
Died. Thomas B. Slick, 47, famed oil wildcatter, "richest independent operator in the world"; of a cerebral hemorrhage, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore where he had been since June 27. Born in Clarion, Pa., he went in 1906 to the Indian Territory, after serving apprentice- ship as driller, muleskinner, roustabout in the oilfields of Illinois. In 1913 he sold out his holdings in Illinois for $2,500,000; last year his Southwestern holdings brought him $45,000,000 from Prairie Oil & Gas. During his funeral in faraway Clarion, all drilling and pumping operations in the Oklahoma City oilfield were stilled...