Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firemen of the town of Coimbra. about 150 miles north of Lisbon, decided last week to hold a realistic drill. Hundreds of spectators, out to celebrate Portugal's Holy Queen religious festival, gathered, and 20 youngsters, many of them sons of the firemen, clambered into an old four-story frame building. The boys were paid 45? to play the part of "tenants." The firemen, having doused the structure with gasoline, retired to their station 400 yards away to await the alarm...
...evening that a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan indicted 18 persons for spying on the U. S. military defense machine, and pitted the U. S. Department of Justice against the German Government, their employer (TIME, June 27), a lean, sparse-haired man with steel-drill eyes and a steel-trap chin flung himself on a Manhattan hotel bed, exhausted. He was Leon G. Turrou, G-Man. He had been working on the spy case 16½ hours a day for 14 weeks. He had not seen his family for four months. His doctor had told him he must rest, long...
With their newfangled electrical and seismographic prospecting instruments, petroleum geologists have found indications that oil formations may lie as deep as 25,000 ft. below the earth's surface. Until the visible supply of oil begins seriously to dwindle, probably no one will try to drill five miles. Meanwhile, in California's San Joaquin Valley, Continental Oil Co. has bored to 15,004 ft.-nearly three miles. This well, prosaically designated as K.C.L. A2, is the deepest hole ever made in the Earth. Having brought up oil from 13,100 ft., it is also the deepest producer...
...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...
...International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla., Franks Manufacturing Corp. put on display a new, aluminum-colored, portable rotary drilling rig which can be mounted on an automobile trailer. It attracted little attention. Just to have something to do, attendants started up the rig and began to drill. At 540 feet they struck oil. In some confusion they capped the hole. Tulsa County, which holds mineral rights underneath the exposition, indicated that it would be willing to receive offers...