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Word: oiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiff, lustrous hostess coat from natural gas, coal oil, salt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marvels | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...smartest little steelman in the U. S.; sleek, youngish Edgar Monsanto Queeny of Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors; the retiring president of N. A. M., courtly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: In Congress Assembled | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Year and a half ago two veteran Oklahoma oil men put a fancy new, aluminum-colored portable rotary drilling rig on display at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla. It attracted little attention. Then the rig's attendants began to drill. At 540 feet they struck oil. Surprised, they capped the hole, turned the oil well over to Tulsa County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Derrick's End? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...mechanic. Their Franks Manufacturing Co. has sold 35 truck-mounted rigs to date at $50,000 apiece. The rig eliminated the cost ($650-$2,000) of putting up a drilling derrick, paid for itself by drilling 18 wells a year. It also set blond Larry O'Donnell, Shell Oil Co.'s chief mechanical engineer in the Texas-Gulf area, to thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Derrick's End? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...worried because Shell expected to have to spend a million dollars to erect permanent derricks on its 900 East Texas wells as soon as the oil stopped flowing freely and pumping became necessary, The derricks had to be there for pulling and cleaning the wells' rods and tubing once or twice a year. He asked for sketches and bids on a portable unit to do the job, and Franks Co. engineers went to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Derrick's End? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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