Word: drillers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth Tom Slick went West to seek his fortune. Starting in the oil fields of Southern Illinois, he followed the derricks as roustabout, mule-skinner, tool-dresser, driller. With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted." No oil. More dollars; another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad...
...cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with the tough fibrous growth, the chest becomes rigid, cannot expand; breathing becomes difficult; tubercle baccilli find a rich, fertile breeding ground; the rock driller dies of silicosis, tuberculosis, or both...
...illustration, the overalled figures of U. S. industry familiar to everyone, was a sure formula for attracting attention. Mr. Kalish attracted it, deserved it. His work was able, though faithful rather to human anatomy than to the technique of the trades he depicted, as when he made an electric driller bend sidewise, for the sake of an esthetic curve, above his drill, instead of holding the drill in front of him where it could get the full thrust of his body. Better even than the workmen, admirers of Mr. Kalish liked his Christ, a taut figure in grave clothes...
Arrived in Vienna one Carl Tucker, Manhattan pianist. He told how one Bill Cannon, Standard Oil Co. driller, had ignited through friction the deepest oil well at Moreni, Rumania. Cannon immediately ordered all the men to leave the danger zone. As he himself fled from the roaring flames, an angry Rumanian crowd attacked him for causing the fire, now rapidly spreading. Cannon's revolver, however, cowed them...