Word: rigging
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...government charged that, to set prices and rig bids, representatives of the five major manufacturers met at least 35 times over the past year, took hotel rooms under assumed names. The government market broke up among G.E. (39%), Westinghouse (35%), I-T-E Circuit Breaker (11%), Allis-Chalmers (8%) and Federal Pacific...
...drilling rig and its surrounding shacks lay dim in the dawnlike light of Arctic high noon one day last week. Suddenly the direct rays of the sun, unseen for more than a month, spilled over the bleak horizon and splashed against the top of the 127-ft. derrick. Getting a nod of assent from the driller, Eskimo Roughneck Elijah Allen, 22, darted to the derrick ladder and scampered up the frosted rungs. As he neared the top, he turned his happy moonface into the thin yellow light and yelled a piercing greeting...
Distance, on the other hand, was a major obstacle in setting up the rig. It went 570 miles by truck, 778 miles by MacKenzie River barge on its way to the well site, in northwest Canada 45 miles north of the Arctic Circle...
...Eskimos at Grandview Hills No. 1 are the first who ever worked on an oil rig. They were hired because of the difficulty of recruiting white workers, mostly married, for long term work so far north. Three were taken on last summer and flown south for training on Alberta rigs. One went back to muskrat trapping, but the other two form the nucleus of the six-man Eskimo contingent on the well...
...Among the plastic sail fleet: a 17-ft. Thistle sloop ($1,875 without sails), Cape Cod Shipbuilding's 23-ft. Marlin day sailor ($5,500 without sails), the 25-ft. New Horizons auxiliary sloop ($8,950 with sails), and the 41-ft. Bounty II with a new yawl rig to improve its racing potential. Newest members of the flotilla are the catamarans, which will easily outspeed many power boats. Among them: Pearson Corp.'s 17-ft. Tiger Cat ($1,795 without sails), which last year won the One-of-a-Kind Regatta against 39 other one-design small...