Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iran for perhaps his toughest job. An Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. well was burning at the bottom of a cup-like rim of hills which held in the heat until the temperature registered 250° even some distance away. He showed Anglo-Iranian's crews how to rig up a bulldozer with asbestos-lined iron shields, got them to lay a 22-mile pipeline to the nearest river to pump in water to the work. Under the spray, he used the armored bulldozer to shove dynamite in an oil barrel close to the well, eleven days later dropped another...
Working day & night, Amerada's drillers had driven a three-cone rotary rock-bit deeper & deeper into the earth of Osborn's farm. The rig's platform throbbed with the clanking rumble of a diesel engine spinning the drill. As the drill bit down into the earth, new lengths of 60-ft. pipe were threaded on to join the mile-and-a-half of pipe already whirling below ground in a single, continuous column. At 8,663 ft. the drilling was stopped, the drill pulled out. Hurriedly the hole was cased with seven-inch pipe and capped...
...morning habits of a good part of the nation, as well as his own. "People write us that they're eating breakfast in the living room next to the TV set instead of in the kitchen or dining room. Some even put their sets on rollers or rig up mirrors s.o they can keep an eye on the show while dressing." He feels that his "national TV newspaper" may have an even greater sociological impact by cutting down on the nation's divorce rate: "God knows that a lot of husbands watching the show aren't arguing...
...counterproposal: let them be supervised by the Big Four who are responsible for carrying out the Potsdam Agreement (whose other clauses Stalin has already thrown to the winds). That would give Stalin, in effect, a veto capable of operating at every stage and a chance to rig the polls...
...years before World War I, Mr. Harold Tucker, of No. 3, Somerset Street, was a wealthy and respected Bristol greengrocer. Many a Sunday afternoon his neighbors nodded in satisfaction at the sight of him and five handsome daughters driving out in a fine rig along the West Country roads. But much time has passed since then, and with it Mr. Tucker and all but one of the girls. Florence died in girlhood; Nancy married and died before middle-age; Clara and Rose followed in turn. Only Miss Louisa, the eldest, was left to live on in the old house...