Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nature and a persistent wildcatter named Arthur ("Tex") Harvey. Though Harvey knew that little oil had been found around Midland, he decided three years ago to take a chance anyway. He drilled down 12,000 feet to a stratum in which oil has been found elsewhere in Texas. The hole was dry. Then Harvey wondered what he might have missed on the way down. Working his well back, he got a little oil. Finally, in the fine-grained, hard-packed sands of the "Spraberry trend,"* at 8,000 ft., Tex Harvey found oil in commercial quantities. But Harvey...
...Soap. Like Tex Harvey, other drillers have found that a Spraberry well must be coddled. Because of the hard-packed nature of the formation, ordinary drilling methods will not release the oil; instead, a gelatinous compound of soap and kerosene, followed by coarse sand, must be pumped into the hole under tremendous pressure. This loosens the fractures and the oil begins to flow freely...
Suspicion Confirmed. The boys played with their strange toy for a couple of months, until they burned a hole in Mrs. Epperson's clothes, too. She then took Donald and the hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size...
...Hole. Last March, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson told Congress that the cost of handling the mail has increased by a billion dollars since 1945, and that rates would have to go up. He proposed to raise $271,320,000 by increasing most rates, and doubling the rate for second-class mail. When the Senate passed a postal bill three weeks ago, it shaved these increases, boosting newspaper rates by 10% a year for three years, magazines by 20% a year for three years, or 60% altogether...
...becomes a pell-mell yarn. Time & again, Revolutionist Bolivar's army was reduced to a handful of men. With despairing patience he wrote articles and letters urging military discipline, an end to jealousy and anarchy among the patriot leaders. "Our army," he wrote, "is a sack with a hole at the bottom"-words that might have come from Valley Forge. Through sheer necessity, he became a brilliant guerrilla campaigner, making up in mobility and surprise what he lacked in numbers. Before he was through, he and his followers had routed the Spaniards from Panama to Peru, laid the foundation...