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...that year the Allies had dropped 50,000 tons of bombs on laboratories in Germany, on launching ramps in France. But the Germans surmounted this drenching attack by devising easily moved, easily hidden ramps. Churchill indirectly confirmed what Londoners suspected: even with advance knowledge Britain had been unable to rig more than a makeshift defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Damnable Thing | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...Rocky Mountain geologist had thumbed it down. But Hawley struck oil on the west side of the tract. Hawley and the Carter Co. promptly divided their holdings in the area, Carter taking the western half and selling the eastern half of the area to Hawley. Smartly he moved his rig to the eastern side. There he brought in a 5,000-bbl. well, setting the oil industry abuzz with hopes of a huge new pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: King of Wildcatters | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...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 »

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