Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy over the nomination of candidates for the board arose last November, when one Overseer alleged that the AHA had attempted to "rig" the elections by nominating an unusually large percentage of members of the financial community...
Exxon expects to have a rig at the Baltimore Canyon in less than three weeks; within an additional 90 days, the company should drill the first well. Shell's Pacesetter II rig, now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, will move to the Baltimore Canyon by mid-April. Texaco, Continental, Mobil, Gulf and Houston Oil & Minerals are also moving rigs to the area...
...drilling will give a hypodermic to some ailing economic areas. Pipe, drilling mud and other necessities are being shipped to Davisville, R.I., which will serve as a supply station. The oil companies plan to quarter their drilling crews in Atlantic City. There will be about 50 men to a rig, each earning $700 to $800 a week, and their spending power will create new jobs in hotels, restaurants and stores. "It will be a tremendous advantage for the Atlantic City area," says Louis Dalberth, head of the Southern New Jersey Development Council. "Super," echoes Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont...
...rig from Norway that is capable of deep ocean drilling. At the same time, Peking has asserted its sovereignty over vast reaches of the Asian continental shelf. That could mean trouble, since these claims conflict with those made by nearly all of China's neighbors, including Japan and the Philippines. Though South Korea and Taiwan have granted exploration rights in the Yellow and East China seas to several U.S. companies, including Gulf and Amoco, the U.S. Government has cautioned American companies to keep their research craft away from the disputed areas for fear that China might seize...
Confidential to "Scared Wife:" I'm enclosing you a copy of my article dated December 14, 1953, in which I describe the case of a husband who was tragically electrocuted while trying to rig up an electric Christmas tree in his bathtub without first properly grounding his feet by wearing a pair of rubber boots and running wires all down his back. Your husband should watch what he's doing, or else Christmas may be a sad, rather than a happy, time...