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...Herbert Spencer Gasser is a professor of physiology at Cornell University School of Medicine where his researches on electrical currents passing through nerves and their relation to the central nervous system have given him large professional fame. By means of vacuum tubes he has magnified those currents 3,000,000 times, found that some of them move more than three miles a minute. At 47, he is unmarried, a lover of music who plays no instrument...
Causing all this trouble was one of the biggest gushers ever blown in, No. 1 Mary Sudik, located in the Oklahoma City field. Last fortnight it started as a mammoth gasser flowing at the rate of 200,000,000 cubic feet a day. Slowly the gas turned to oil which shot skyward completely out of control, running at the rate of more than 2,000 barrels an hour. After long labor engineers succeeded in clamping a master gate valve on the well, only to see the connections ripped apart, tossed into the air. A second attempt, however, was successful. Mary...
...terrible gasser...