Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nuclear Fleet. At his Pentagon desk, Burke smacks the dottle from his pipe against his heavy Annapolis ring, looks far beyond today's Navy and sees Nautilus as the forerunner of the all nuclear fleet. Burke's Navy no longer makes conventional submarines: the atomic Sea Wolf is ready for commission, seven more A-subs are under construction or authorized, another six are scheduled in the budget now before Congress. That budget makes a pair of historic requests: one is for a construction start on the first nuclear-powered surface vessel, a missile cruiser of about...
...feet, 15,000 feet-their hopes sank as fast as their costs rose. Drillers had to battle hole temperatures up to 350°, pressures up to 20,000 lbs. per sq. in. Bills for a special heavy drilling mud skyrocketed. It took eleven hours to pull the pipe out and replace a drill bit. Last November, when costs reached $8,000 daily, the partners considered abandoning the well...
...they kept going, pushed the pipe down more than four miles to 22,570 ft., and thereby made Louisiana Land and Exploration Co. Well 1-L the world's deepest well.* Last week, after the three partners had spent a total of $2,450,000 on it, 1-L came in, was flowing about 200 bbl. a day. If it leads to a big new discovery on the 10,000 acres they have under option, the partners can consider their big stakes well invested. But by itself, 1-L is no big profitmaker. After paying royalties to the landowner...
...served 25 years or more. This year, however, only those who will complete their 25th year in June will attend. The list of 12 women and 30 men, includes the Lowell House superintendent, Fritz Rau, six maids, three policemen, three chefs, three engineers, a bus woman, a pipe coverer, carpenters, watchmen and librarians...
Steiner's platoon is a batch of human putty. Among them are: trusty, pipe-smoking Schnurrbart, a born second-in-command; Dietz, a mamma's boy with the puppy-dog look; Dorn, an overage misclassified philosophy professor; Kern, a blowhard rookie; and Zoll, a pornography-minded tub of lard. "Anyone who gives out is going to be left behind," Steiner warns them. When their rations give out, Steiner tells them to eat tree bark, but he also shares the last of his own rations. When Dietz is critically wounded in a night skirmish, it is Steiner who holds...