Word: rigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit friends in his ward in the imposing Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md. In Reeve's left wrist was a hypodermic needle from which rubber tubing ran to an infusion bottle hanging from a stand on casters. This elaborate rig, which Reeve moved along with him, was needed to keep him from being immobilized for eight hours while ACTH dripped slowly into his veins so that research doctors could study what happened to hormones in Reeve's bloodstream...
...permission from the French government to explore 4,300,000 acres of Les Landes. In exchange, the company agreed to give the French government 10% of the stock in any exploitation company. The venture started inauspiciously. The first well 30 miles south of Bordeaux was dry. Then the rig was moved to the village of Parentis (pop. 998), about 44 miles southwest of Bordeaux...
Much like the rig used by oilmen in the Gulf of Mexico (TIME, July 5), the Air Force island (nickname: "Texas Tower") will probably be a steel barge, some 200 ft. long, with 100-ft., tubelike caissons, each 6 ft. in diameter, running through vertical holes close to its sides. At the designated site, the caissons will be dropped and poked deep into the ocean bottom. Compressed-air jacks will inch the barge up its caissons, out of reach of waves and stormy seas. Then the caissons will be pile-driven into the mud, cut off and welded flush with...
...tender: a good-sized ship tethered close to the platform. Pipes and other heavy objects are swung across by a sling running on thick cables. Liquid necessities travel in flexible hoses. If a hurricane approaches, the tender can take all hands on board and run for shelter. A rig of this type, belonging to Gulf Oil Corp., is now drilling off Corpus Christi, Texas in 67 feet of water, the depth record...
...time the drill is turning, biting into the rock thousands of feet below. If the platform must be moved, the barge shins slowly down its legs and pulls them out of the mud. A complete move takes less than a day, and costs less than moving a drill rig on land...