Word: rigged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bought a derrick, got an ancient, 3,000-ft. East Texas drilling rig and a leaking secondhand boiler and boldly set out to sink a 6,000-ft. hole in Hardin County. He drafted his father as a tool pusher, his younger brother William as a laborer. It was agonizing toil. Sand ruined the rubber rings in his pumps every half hour; each time, he dismantled the mechanism and installed new ones. The "coffee pot" rig broke down endlessly. He says: "We might as well have been drilling with a high-heeled boot." It took six months to sink...
...Tortuguero, south of Veracruz, a handful of Mexican and U.S. oil drillers slapped each other's backs and shouted with hoarse joy. A few weeks ago, boring at an angle to a depth of 6,000 feet under the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, their rig had tapped a pool of rich green-black petroleum. Last week Tortuguero No. 1 surged into test production at a steady 500 barrels...