Word: kinley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heroes of this and many another well fire were the famed Kinley brothers of Tulsa-Myron, 35, and Floyd, 28-professional wild well tamers. Day after the Gladewater holocaust they flew to the scene of the disaster, began directing men in asbestos suits to clear away the derrick wreckage, kept white hot by the billowing flames. After the preliminary work, during which Brother Myron broke his leg, a sloping track of steel pipe was pushed to the well's mouth. Hobbling around on crutches. Brother Myron helped Brother Floyd load an insulated barrel with 70 quarts of nitroglycerine...
Thirty hours after the disaster, men with asbestos suits got close enough to the bore to make preparations for a nitroglycerine blast. M. M. Kinley and his brother Harry, famed wild well tamers, came from Oklahoma to begin that hazardous undertaking which is calculated to blow out the fuel supply long enough to extinguish the towering pillar of fire...
...responsibilities which he must take up next autumn have been borne for the past decade by 65-year-old David Kinley, a member of the Illinois faculty since 1893, oldest state university president. Situated in the neighboring towns of Urbana and Champaign, not far from the geographical centre of the state, the University of Illinois squats down and spreads out over 1,548 acres of campus and farm land. In Chicago, three hours by rail to the north, are the great medical schools (Pharmacy, Dentistry, Medicine...