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...costs on deep wells. Chemical muds are pumped down inside a drill pipe to the bit and then back up the hole, thus holding down subterranean oil pressures, keeping the bit cool, and carrying the drill cuttings back up to the surface. In deep holes, conventional muds jell under the intense heat and dry up at 300° F, cause expensive delays. The new muds, DMS (Drilling Mud, Surfacant) and DME (Drilling Mud, Emulsifier), which are chemically similar to automobile antifreeze, work like detergents to eliminate the drill cuttings, withstand pressures...
...Record was off to a promising start with advertising (limited to 50% of the paper), plentiful in the first week. It was printing 16,000 copies and giving them away free for a fortnight, expecting paid circulation to jell later at 12,000. After the paper is running smoothly, Publisher Bernstein will go back to Manhattan "to work on other enterprises" for Kaplan, probably a string of similar smalltown dailies using the new process...
Munro said "we have a lot of people with a great deal of individual ability on the team. It will take us a little while to jell, but we should do all right, once...
Last year when the highly touted Cornell eleven played host to the Crimson it was in the threes of an early season slump--one which continued for four straight defeats, the third loss being to Harvard, 13-12. But an inexperienced line suddenly began to jell, and the preseason Ivy League favorites reeled off five victories in a row to tie Yale for the championship...
...these pressures were not overwhelming. Against them stood good reasons why Adlai Stevenson should make no definite pronouncement now. If he did so, various political leaders would be under great and unwelcome pressure to declare for or against him. They would rather wait for sentiment to jell...