Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happening, the more visible moves of WPA were: 1) To approve Sidney Hillman's plan for buying $10,000,000 of men's and boys' clothes for distribution to relief clients (TIME, June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers' Alliance of America (national union of WPA & relief workers) and hear his demand that WPA's minimum wage be raised from $21 per month...
...FORTUNE pointed out last week in an article on K.C.L. A2, Continental's scientists and executives had no idea of making a record when the well was started. Encouraged by oil and gas strikes in a radius of 25 miles, they thought they would hit producing sand at 9,000 or 10,000 ft. They "spudded in" at midnight on June 21, 1937, using a 20-in. bit. In drilling for oil, the bit is carried on a shaft of hollow pipe, in 30-ft. lengths screwed together. A powerful steam engine on the surface spins the pipe...
...drilling speed had dropped to a foot an hour, and a new bit was needed every 25 ft. At 11,600 ft., the mud pressure was 9,000 lb. per sq. in. Apparently this huge force squeezed the water out of the mud into a porous sand formation at that depth, so that the mud caked and "froze" the bit collar. The drill pipe was fished out with difficulty but the collar was immovable. By means of a knuckle joint the frozen collar was sidestepped, and the hole, now pinched down to six inches, went on down. Near the bottom...
...Nebraska, a collection of pig bones has been found in windblown sand. Some ancestral pigs had sought protection. Here back in Miocene times were pigs living gregariously...
...because, until the final 36, all matches are at 18 holes-which means that luck rather than skill has a large part in determining the winner. For U. S. players the chief hazards always are the wind (invariably a cross one), a course studded with thick gorse and tricky sand traps, greens that require a pitch-&-run shot rather than the backspin approach most U. S. golfers play. More serious than these natural hazards last week was the luck of the draw which placed the unseeded U. S. Walker Cuppers in the same bracket, necessitated their killing one another...