Word: seismographer
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...king of the explorers. After others had vainly scouted the Williston Basin since the early '20s, Jacobsen last year sank the well that tapped one of the country's richest oil pools. But shrewd Oilman Jacobsen did not rest on the triumph; he already had his seismograph crews roaming north west Alberta in a hunt for new treasure. Oilmen have long guessed that an oil-rich coral-reef formation underlies Alberta's Peace River Basin, about 200 miles northwest of Canada's vast Leduc field, and have spent years hunting...
...fields. Some, like California's Ventura, had been thought exhausted. Shell has proved up new reserves by drilling its old Ventura wells deeper. Oilmen are now drilling through the bottom of old wells in South Texas, looking for deeper pay sands. Use of gravity-meters and perfected seismograph techniques now enable prospectors to pinpoint formations which could contain oil. But to find out whether oil is there, no substitute has been found for the old-fashioned gamble of sinking a drill. Thanks to the tenacity of such gamblers as Jacobsen, Hunt and countless independent wildcatters, the industry...
...important jogs and wiggles on the international seismograph last week all indicated new stirrings in Asia...
...sound which jiggled the seismograph most was the voice of Vishinsky. Since a Communist's word can neither be trusted nor disregarded, the West took note of his warnings. Western intelligence recognizes that a full-scale Chinese attack on Indo-China would undo all the success General de Lattre de Tassigny has had there, but it still has no solid evidence that a Chinese invasion is imminent...
...whole world stopped breathing for a moment over his fall," said the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It was journalistic hyperbole, but it caught, more vividly than any other seismograph, the tremor of emotion that ran around the globe as Douglas MacArthur was ordered down from his lofty post...