Word: geyser
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...long, heartbreaking job. But on Jan. 10, 1901, when the bit had reached 1,020 ft., the well began to erupt. With a cannonlike report, mud, water and gas roared up, shooting pipe and rocks high in the air. Then came a greasy and terrifying geyser of oil - a 75,000-barrel-a-day flow, more than many a whole field produces. Within weeks, the town of Beaumont was a madhouse of tents, saloons, lean-tos and one-room shacks; land on the dome was selling for as much as $1,000,000 an acre, and derricks were rising...
...Fountainhead (Warner), as titles go, is a stunning understatement. Based on the bestselling novel by Ayn Rand, who also wrote the screenplay, it is actually a geyser of emotional sounds and ideologically, signifying only that Author Rand-and possibly Hollywood-are uneasy about the state of the world...
Graton wanted to see how temperatures changed at various depths as the geyser went off. But once his experimenting brought up more than a handful of pen-line graphs...
...happened last summer, when Graton had dropped his cable into Old Faithful, to study the temperature of the world's most famous geyser. Suddenly his instruments tripped some unknown underground trigger, and Old Faithful-- which had faithfully erupted every 63 minutes since the Indians found it--blew its top 15 minutes too soon. Graton and his party didn't know the geyser was loaded, but they backed out of the way before anyone was hurt...
From the information gathered in Yellowstone, the geologists have prepared a Walt Disneyish movie, caricaturing a geyser and pointing out its temperature shifts. By these methods they hope to solve the mysteries of where the heat and the water comes from...