Word: rig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the last four years, not because of marital difficulties but because he was the man who brought in the first well in the second greatest oil pool in the world-the East Texas Field.* Dad Joiner has been at it since 1913. He yanked up his drilling rig 400 ft. short of oil under what later became another flush and fabulous pool, the Seminole. But he made a strike here & there, and by 1927 was drilling in East Texas in an area which geologists unanimously condemned as bone dry. On Oct. 4, 1930 he brought in a gusher...
...Aryanism in Germany, used the word with seemly caution. Born in Dessau in 1823 to a German poet and dissuaded from, attempting a musical career by Mendelssohn (his godfather), Max Muller studied Sanskrit, comparative philology, grew fond of metaphysics, went to Oxford in 1848 to supervise printing of his Rig-Veda translation, stayed in England the rest of his life, became a naturalized Briton, died at last, in the fullness of years and honors...
...Pennsylvania Ave. Chairman Kennedy summoned newshawks, delivered himself of a ringing statement against speculative profits: "The days of stock manipulation are in the past now. There will be little, if any, of this 'buy today and out Thursday' business from this time on. ... You can't rig the market any more...
...made as much as $500 a week in exhibition games. Last week she signed to pitch at $1,000 a month for the able, bewhiskered House of David team of Benton Harbor, Mich., which tours the East and Midwest in sum mer, carries a $40,000 lighting rig for night games. Four hours before a scheduled court hearing to determine whether he was too feeble-minded to stand trial, Joseph Wright Harriman, 66-year-old indicted Manhattan banker, disappeared, second time in two months (TIME, May 29). While his wife and daughter, who were to testify, waited in Mrs. Harriman...
...squally weather ushered in Cowes Week, Great Britain's chief yachting fixture. The regatta started with tragedy. Just before the first race the Britannia, King George's 38-year-old cutter journeyed for position by the starting buoy off Calshot Head, proud of her new Marconi rig with its towering hollow mast. King George was aboard, snugly dressed and eager for the day's sport. A squall struck the Britannia's vast mainsail. She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept Second Mate Ernest Friend...