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Then Murchison made the decision that made him rich: he started drilling. Through a system of "financin' by finaglin'," i-e-, getting money in exchange for a share of one lease, a rig in exchange for a share of another, he formed a new partnership, started drilling wildcat wells at the rate of 50 or 60 a year. Murchison always put aside a few shares for himself. He struck it lucky and his income soared to $30,000 a month. In 1925 he sold his oil interests for some $5.000,000, retired to San Antonio...
...small amount of highly reactive tritium, perhaps mixed with deuterium. Both the isotopes are light gases, and so they can be highly compressed and confined inside the metal. They can also be dispersed through it in some chemical or mechanical way. When the detonator explodes in such a rig, the tritium reacts, turning into helium and raising the temperature of the explosion. Such "fusion-boosted" detonators are much discussed among hydrogen-bomb connoisseurs. The long series of "nuclear devices" that the Atomic Energy Commission tested in the Pacific and Nevada may have included many experiments with fusion boosting...
...lighthouse. Then the Flower's engine sputtered to a stop. The youngest son tinkered with the dead machinery. "Quick, Manuel, or we'll be caught," urged Candido. But the helpless craft was already broaching to the sea. As the other boys tried in vain to rig a sail, the waves were already crashing on the deck. Ashore, where the lighthouse keeper had spread the alarm, Santona's fishermen tried to launch lifeboats, but the angry seas tossed them back like corks onto the jagged reefs. Behind them black-shawled women gathered on the beach to kneel...
...need for high-speed derring-do. At Holloman Air Force Base, N.Mex., is a menacing contraption: a rocket-propelled sled that travels on railroad rails at 750 m.p.h. As an additional attraction, the passenger sits in a chair that tumbles over and over 180 times a minute. The rig is designed to simulate the air pressure and violent rotation encountered by a pilot who bails out of a fighter plane at the peak of its speed...
...hill outside the town stood a modern, 168-ft. oil rig; below it was Sicily's first proven well, Gulf Oil Corp.'s Ragusa No. 1, with an initial capacity of more than 500 bbls...