Word: roughnecking
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...Stephen Power Parish, 62, moved up from president of Reed Roller Bit Co. to board chairman. A onetime roughneck in the Texas oilfields and a brother of William S. Parish, president of Standard Oil (N.J.) from 1937-42, Steve Parish took over Reed in 1925 when it had some 80 workers and $1,000,000 in assets. He built the company into the world's second largest oil-tool concern (first: Hughes Tool Co.), with assets of $24 million and worldwide markets for its rock bits, rotary joints, drill collars and coring equipment. R. G. Hamaker, formerly vice president...
Beria's benefactor, Kirov, had been sensationally murdered about this time, and the Soviet Union was on the verge of a political bloodbath. The instrument of the purge set off by the Kirov assassination was Genrikh Yagoda, a leather-capped roughneck who was then head of NKVD (successor to the Cheka). Yagoda did a thorough job and, in due time, he got his reward: he was charged, like thousands of his victims, with being an enemy of the people, imperialist spy, etc. Yagoda was the third of the great cops, following Felix Dzerzhinsky, the lean, cat-eyed Polish aristocrat...
...James) Frank Drake as chairman and chief executive officer of Gulf Oil Corp., President Sidney A. Swensrud, 52, moved up to chairman, while Drake became executive committee chairman. Gulf's new president is William K. Whiteford, 52, who in the early '205 started as a roughneck in the Southern California oilfields, rose rapidly in production jobs with independents, was chairman and president of Canada's British-American Oil Co., Ltd. in 1951 when he quit to join Gulf as executive vice president...
Helping Stewart capture his quarry are Millard Mitchell, an unstable, disillusioned prospector, and Ralph Meeker, a lecherous dishonorably discharged Army officer. Janet Leigh, albeit in buckskins, looks out of place as sort of a roughneck ingenue...
Picnic is a kind of naturalistic round-dance of women hungry for what they have lost or never had or were better off without. Fulfillment is as precarious as frustration: the young girl, in throwing in her lot with the roughneck, is very likely throwing away her life; the teacher and the storekeeper she desperately snares in her cups invoke wedding bells that are more mocking than merry...