Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Lloyd Jordan put the Crimson eleven through a controlled scrimmage and emphasized passing in yesterday's practice at Soldiers Field. The drill was considerably lighter than Tuesday's session...
...Deep Oil. The Magnolia Petroleum Co. announced a drilling mud that will make it possible to reach oil at depths that could neyer be attempted before, save more than $50,000 in costs on deep wells. Chemical muds are pumped down inside a drill pipe to the bit and then back up the hole, thus holding down subterranean oil pressures, keeping the bit cool, and carrying the drill cuttings back up to the surface. In deep holes, conventional muds jell under the intense heat and dry up at 300° F, cause expensive delays. The new muds, DMS (Drilling...
Born. To Staff Sergeant Matthew Charles McKeon, 31, Marine drill instructor whose sentence for leading an unscheduled night march on which six recruits were drowned is under review (TIME, Aug. 13), and Elizabeth Evelyn Wood (Betty) McKeon, 28: a second daughter, third child; in Beaufort, S.C. Name: Bridget Alice. Weight...
Wealth Under Ice. Diamond-drill crews moved in, soon realized they were atop an ore body of gigantic size. After freeze-up, drillers moved out onto the ice of nearby Dore Lake, traced out rich seams of ore extending deep beneath the lake bed. Last March the newly organized Copper Rand Chibougamau Mines Ltd. announced plans to build a mill to concentrate 5,000 to 7,000 tons of ore a day, and the boom was on in earnest...
...luck has dogged the sports career of U.S. Army Private Willie J. Williams, 24, a powerful Negro from Gary, Ind. At the University of Illinois he wanted to be a football star in the worst way, but during a preseason drill in his junior year he broke a leg and never played football again. Later he won a fistful of Big Ten sprint championships, was leadoff man on the 400-meter relay team that set a Pan American record in Mexico in 1955. But when the Army shipped him to Los Angeles to try for the Olympic team...