Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then the A.A.F. has found the pickup just the ticket for rescuing stranded soldiers from rubber boats, jungles, remote islands. Pickup gear-ropes, poles, harness -is dropped first. The man below then sets up his rig, waits confidently for the plane to come back, hook on and whisk him away. The A.A.F. is already experimenting with fast-flying combat planes to replace the slow-flying put-puts now used...
...changes in air density by means of an extremely fast mercury lamp with an exposure of less than one-millionth of a second. The light, flashed through a region of disturbed air, recorded on a photographic plate a "shadowgraph" showing groups of bunched air molecules. Using a more elaborate rig, which has a knife-edge that stops all but the bent light rays, the experimenters developed a technique so sensitive that it can photograph the heat rising from a human hand at room temperature...
...most Oklahomans, these are remote considerations. They have an oldtime oil boom on their hands, and they like it. The West Edmond boom has robbed the Kentucky and Illinois fields of every rig capable of boring deeper than 5,000 feet. Phillips Petroleum is curtailing its wildcatting in the Panhandle, moving its equipment east to develop its Edmond leases. Over West Edmond's 27 square miles, Oklahomans could count 102 producing wells, with 88 more being drilled-and only six dry holes so far. Ready to be drilled when rigs are available are 150 locations in proven areas...
...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...
...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...