Word: rigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still legal-are a few Westerners, 45 Americans and 625 Britons, representing the Kuwait Oil Co. (a joint operation of Gulf Oil Corp. and Britain's Anglo-Iranian). Typical of the Americans are the Charles Jacksons of Cairo, Ill. Jackson, a weather-beaten well driller, runs his rig with the help of six Kuwaitis who are paid on a scale ranging from $1 to $2 a day. Jackson worries about his Kuwaitis: "They work all right if you watch them, but if you go away you come back and find them asleep...
...charge claiming an attempt to rig games played by Bradley University has also been leveled against Feinberg. Eight Bradley players have been accused of "throwing" games...
...next day, Carlsen and Dancy fought to free the fouled tackle and rig a new line. Once, when they were on the verge of success, a great wave smashed over the ship. Carlsen was swept off his feet, skidded along the slanted deck, barely saved himself from going overboard. He and Dancy settled down to wait for a break in the weather, but within minutes the Keith's radio operator was picking up new gale warnings. Carlsen and Dancy moved higher, scrambled up to the captain's office on the starboard side. At 10 a.m. next morning...
...Edmonton, a landmark known the country round as "Chamberlain's Folly." While digging for water on his farm in 1911, William Chamberlain had hit a pocket of natural gas and got a hunch that there might be oil on his land. He sank his savings in an oil rig, the first rotary drill ever used in Alberta. The money ran out when the well was down 2,000 feet, with no sight of oil. Discouraged, Chamberlain went back to farming...
Although his abandoned oil rig became a joke of his neighbors, Farmer Chamberlain never saw the joke himself. While earning a modest living on his farm, he kept plugging over the years to interest outside investors in the oil prospects of his land. Once in 1936, and again in 1942, oil companies nibbled at options and were on the verge of drilling, but backed out at the last minute. Not until ten months ago, with oil rigs sprouting all over the area, did an Edmonton brokerage firm put up the money to resume the quest...