Word: rig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spread 40,000,000 acres with poison bait by season's end. So that the grasshoppers will take readily to the fare, it is mixed with sawdust and water or molasses, flung over infested fields from buckets, or spread from barrels by whirling disks which the farmers rig on the rear axles of old automobiles and tow over the fields...
...International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla., Franks Manufacturing Corp. put on display a new, aluminum-colored, portable rotary drilling rig which can be mounted on an automobile trailer. It attracted little attention. Just to have something to do, attendants started up the rig and began to drill. At 540 feet they struck oil. In some confusion they capped the hole. Tulsa County, which holds mineral rights underneath the exposition, indicated that it would be willing to receive offers...
...appropriation of the funds raised, the direction for their disbursement are but part of the plan. They are but means to an unconstitutional end." For nearly two years since the Supreme Court swept away that New Deal mainmast, the Administration's farm policy has been sailing under jury rig...
...Generally, when I have a news item for local publication and same is written up, there prevails an atmosphere foreign to the oil fields. A lot of phrases are always included that we never use around a rig, it sort of conveys the idea that perhaps the society editor was doing the reporting. After I read pp. 52-53 in TIME, I had the feeling that you knew more about producing oil and gas and acidizing than I. So convinced am I that I'll bet a dollar to a slug that you have seen more than one well...
Even if Ranger had not lost her mast last week-which means that she will have to use a makeshift rig until July-it was by no means a certainty that she would be this year's Cup defender. The Cup races are preceded by trial races in which the two other candidates for the honor of defending yachting's oldest, ugliest trophy are Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, and Rainbow, which now belongs to Chandler Hovey. Like everything else about America's Cup racing, contender trials are grand scale. The Preliminary Series, which starts...