Word: holes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first 848 ft. the hole was drilled 24-2 in. in diameter. Then it was telescoped to 17 in., then to 12 3/8 in. At the 10,000-ft. mark it was down to 7! in. Meantime Texas Corp.'s Rigolette No. 5 in the Lafitte field in Louisiana was brought in last month at 10.244 ft., setting a new depth record for a producing oil well. At McGonigle No. 12 the bit, now down to 4! in., ground around & around until it was down to 10,569 ft., just nine feet over two miles. Then the oil flowed...
...research, and elementary carpentry produced a fool proof "thing" by means of which mail, packages, and whatever else the fates may bring can be deposited inside the office without (1) the postman unlocking the door, (2) allowing a trespasser (see cut) to remove the mail, or (3) cutting a hole in the door the size of which would undermine the building. (Check one of these three...
Recognition comes late to all great inventors. In Maine it has just been discovered that the man who invented the hole in the doughnut has been dead fourteen years. He has, however, been nominated for the Hall of Fame...
...also along the coast of North America from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia, fishermen have not generally known of its abundance, or, knowing it, have not attempted to develop a market. Consequently when Dr. Hjort came here last year as a guest of Harvard, and also of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (of which Professor H. B. Bigelow is director), he set about at once to learn whether the shrimps are as abundant here as they are in Europe...
...research vessel "Atlantis" of the Oceanographic Institute forthwith set out on an expedition for this purpose, with Dr. Hjort, Professor Bigelow, Professor Redfield, and others on board. A week's voyage between Woods Hole and Cape Small was enough to convince Dr. Hjort that the shrimps are here in commercial quantities...