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...drilling outfit worked by remote control, are current among the offshore oilmen, but the responsible heads of the oil companies point out that drilling is only a part of the oil-producing business. The wells must be kept cleaned out; the oil must be freed of water, gas and sand, and brought ashore in pipelines. The crews must be housed and fed. All this is enormously expensive, with boats plying continually among the well platforms, special bases to service the boats, and radars to guide them in foggy weather. When an offshore field is fully developed, it will look like...
...Sand & Cotton. Pacific Far East was founded by a group of businessmen- who wanted to cash in on plentiful cargoes and scarce bottoms. To run the company, they hired American President Lines Vice President Thomas E. Cuffe (rhymes with rough), 55, a Kansas-born Californian who learned the ropes of the shipping business with the old Dollar Line...
...port picking up a few crates here and there. Cuffe also hired go-getting Sales Manager Al Papworth to bring in private cargoes. He did so by finding buyers and sellers for goods Pacific could carry. Examples: a Philippine glassmaker who was having trouble finding the right kind of sand was persuaded to import it from Del Monte, California; twelve Hong Kong importers who were short of cotton were sold California cotton surpluses; a deal was worked out to haul junked military equipment on Pacific islands to Japanese steel furnaces as scrap...
When I looked at the doctor's hand, the detached part of me saw it as it was, the other part expressed a feeling of horror . . . the hand was so old as to be ageless . . . There were sand and bright colors . . . Egyptian ornamentation and a sphinx . . . ¶Still others experience identification with friends or relatives. Several patients thought themselves to be their own mothers, and two went through the experiences of their own birth...
...balanced, steel-shafted clubs and hopped-up golf balls, good players were going out on established courses and easily smacking their tee shots past once-dangerous hazards. Duffers and mediocre golfers were running into all the trouble. Architect Jones has been forced to drain swampland, dam creeks and rearrange sand dunes in his continuing effort to lay out holes with both character (i.e., a combination of problems and pleasure) and beauty. He always tries for the balance that will satisfy the average amateur and try the skill of the professional...