Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from his carriers Illustrious and Eagle. First through the darkness went some light bombers, to drop flares and incendiaries and light up the scene for the real workmen. These were pilots of Fairey Swordfish torpedo-carrying planes, ancient-looking single-engine contraptions with enough wire between their wings to rig a hen yard. But the Swordfish, like the U. S. Navy's Douglas TBD-1, pack a terrible wallop between their nonretractable wheels. Each carrying an 18-inch torpedo, they came in low over the water, bearing down on a congregation of Fascist ships numbering well over...
Most successful wildcatter in the U. S. is young, tough Glenn H. McCarthy. His glib boast: he drills wells for nothing (i.e., very cheap), hence can't lose. Dubbed "King of the Wildcatters" by fellow Texans, Glenn was a moderately successful filling-station operator until 1933. Borrowing a rig from a friend, he drilled several failures, then struck in Big Creek and the Conroe field, sold out the latter for $50,000. From there he moved on to Anahuac in Chambers County. Drilling two and a quarter miles north of the centre of a field controlled by the majors...
McCarthy success is not mere luck. Oil men say he never knows when to stop drilling. Before McCarthy, the unwritten rule on the Gulf Coast was: "When you haven't found it after going 200 feet into the Frio (oil-indicating sand), start tearing down the rig because it just isn't there." In League City he drilled 600 feet into the Frio before finding one of the most important pay sands in Texas...
...class. Hustled aboard were oil for an Atlantic crossing, reportedly full stores of 21-inch (British-size) torpedoes for the twelve tubes, shells for the four 4-inch guns and lone, outmoded antiaircraft gun which each destroyer carried. Reportedly installed on some was Great Britain's prized DeGaussing rig of electrical cables, to foil magnetic mines. Aboard each vessel were some 60 U. S. Navy men and officers (about half the normal crew). They were detailed to deliver the ships (probably to Halifax), break in British crews. By week's end the Wood, Welles, Crowninshield, Buchanan, Herndon -eight...
Harold N. Arrowsmith '43, owner, and Marshall Dyer '43, his pilot, were testing a new type of sailing rig for a faltboot, the folding boat that goes into a suitcase. After a precarious voyage around the basin in front of Weld Boathouse, they found themselves dead in the path of an informal crew race. Tacking madly to avoid the onrushing eights, Pilot Dyer shattered his mast in the middle of the course...