Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred expert oil wranglers, white-slickered, steel-helmeted, sought to stem the flow by capping it with a hurriedly forged 3,000-lb. steel cone known as a "Christmas tree." Many-valved, it was designed to shut down on the escaping oil little by little. But the white figures could remain near the huge yellow plumes of spurted oil only a few minutes at a time; the work progressed slowly. Only after a three-day struggle did they screw their giant nipple into place and throttle nature's deluge. Leading the labor was the well's owner, Fred...
...Grace Bryan Hargreaves, second daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, was happy when her oil well, "Grace Bryan No. 1," gushed in with a flow of 4,500 bbl. per day at Venice, Calif., making her one of the biggest operators in the field...
...having fun on a Paris vacation. Secretary Washington, 29, Rhodes Scholar, was in charge. Only four years in the U. S. foreign service, he had been in Rio less than a twelvemonth. He did his conscientious best to keep the State Department in Washington posted on the ebb and flow of the civil war. It looked to him as if the rebels would be defeated by the Federal forces of President Washington Luis and he so informed Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson...
...simultaneous or progressive. Simultaneous lights are used in New York, but are technically unsound because they result in a high moving speed and a slow overall rate. The progressive lights as they are used on Washington Street in Boston are theoretically ideal and permit a quick and continuous flow of traffic...
About the time Drys were joyfully celebrating the tenth anniversary of constitutional Prohibition last winter (TIME, Jan. 27) a new and uncharted groundswell of Wet sentiment became discernible to political mariners throughout the land. To many it seemed to be a distinct tide change. How high it would flow and what channels it would alter no man knew. Wet militancy increased. Prohibition speculation again became fashionable. A Senate investigating committee disclosed the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment as a husky adult organization, amply financed and operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary...