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...scene, he found part of the well platform a mass of wreckage. The wells' damaged "Christmas trees" (i.e., cluster of valves topping the well pipe) kept the flames close to the platform, making the area too hot to approach. Kinley borrowed a four-man Army team from Louisiana's Camp Polk, tried to shoot off the trees with 75-mm. recoilless rifles. The tree of one well was shot off. Kinley got Pure Oil's crews to weld together a 90-ft. boom of pipe tipped with a big loop and cooled by hundreds of gallons...
...spring leaks, and the smallest leak of radioactive water would make the submarine's cramped quarters uninhabitable. Westinghouse now has an answer to this atomic-age hazard: a "canned" pump, with all its electrical parts locked tight in stainless steel. The whole pump is buried in the water pipe, needing no seals or packing that can leak. One such buried pump has been running steadily at full load for 13,000 hours (1½ years...
...minded tycoon (Walter Pidgeon), a sexy bit-girl (Elaine Stewart). But, though some of the characters may be bad and others beautiful, few are either real or believable. As the actress, Lana Turner looks lushly beautiful. As the author, Dick Powell bases his characterization on tweedy suits and a pipe. The most convincing character in the picture is not a Hollywood type, but a fluttery Southern belle, smartly played by Gloria Grahame...
...bundle, wearing a black sateen shirt, coat, vest, and pants, a slouch hat, good shoes and socks, no underwear, in my pockets a small bar of soap, a razor, a comb, a pocket mirror, two handkerchiefs, a piece of string, needles and thread, a Waterbury watch, a knife, a pipe and a sack of tobacco, three dollars and twenty-five cents in cash...
Brown refused to name the ice companies, adding that the equipment--new--would cost him around $125,000. He stated that he would have little trouble getting the pipe, "unless I wait around to the last minute, which I wouldn...