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Word: rigging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Small Troubles. Now A.A.C.S. stations cover the world, range in personnel from four to 150, in temperature from the sticky wet heat of the Solomons to the numbing cold of Greenland. One Greenland station recorded a wind velocity of 137 m.p.h. before the weather rig blew away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Global War, Global Network | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

There may be a painting of a schooner over Donald Douglas' mantel, but Endymion today is a cutter. Thousands of Los Angeles yachtsmen, familiar with Endymion's magnificent single stick, remember that she was converted to a more modern rig a number of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Smack on the spot where Nettie's cabin stood, a big rotary rig is drilling toward a great new oil-producing level some 4.000 ft. below the original "Frontier" sands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Nettie's Homestead | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...Chicago, to sound out the possibilities. Lanky Dr. Link made his surveys, waited over the winter, after the ice left set out on Great Slave Lake with a motorboat, two scows overloaded with supplies, drill crews and an ox named "Nig." Eventually, after the ox had hauled the rig into position, the drillers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Gas for the Planes to Asia | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Into Mackinac Island's white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of Mackinac | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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