Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...54th day a ray-detecting electrometer struck pay dirt. The city engineer built a tricky special scraper, probed, scratched, and out of a heap of sewer muck hauled the three precious tubes...
Drillers struck oil last week in the muck of Florida's Everglades, where Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest domestic affiliate of Standard of New Jersey, bailed out the first 400 barrels of black crude from the first producing well on the Eastern Seaboard. Standard's 11,700-ft.-deep well added fuel to the old hope of geologists that the great Gulf Coast oil beds extend eastward to the Atlantic, comprise an area almost double that of the present known fields...
Tempo, Timetable. Long John's speed and success come from his habit of planning everything to a split minute. His "muck trains" tote out debris on a rail road timetable basis; his sweating rockhogs know exactly how far they must bore. (Long John expects to get through in four months.) To help his men Long John several years ago designed and built a huge, seven-ton drill carriage which uses six bits instead of four. Added incentives are high wages and bonuses, three-shift operations. Most effective of all, Long John is the kind his men understand...
...bottom. The winches turned, the cables began to pull, and very gradually, inch by inch, the big ship rolled. Week after week the process went on. The clamps were moved up the ship's hull to get a higher pull. Her topsides appeared. She lifted her muck-covered head out of the water, until the cables could be looped around the gun turrets and mast step. They hauled altogether for a total of 69 hours, moving her at the rate of two degrees an hour...
...flat, swampy farms along the eastern shore of Florida's Lake Okeechobee, where the rich, black muck sometimes goes as deep as 20 feet, and the long green beans ripen 45 days after planting, the first group of Bahamian Negroes brought to the U.S. in World War II went to work last week...