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After a field is found, bacteria prove pesky saboteurs. The drilling mud that oilmen force down the well often contains starch, tannin and other things that bacteria love to work on. So the mud is apt to go sour and spoil like milk left out of the refrigerator. Dr. Beerstecher's advice: disinfectants to keep the mud sweet and efficient...
...Cabinet: he could meet Malenkov at Geneva, in the happy aftermath of agreement. Or Berlin, or Stockholm might provide a suitable rendezvous: Churchill was not too keen on going to Moscow, which might look too much like a pilgrimage. Eden objected. He was already worried that the U.S. might spoil the happy atmosphere by bluntly condemning the partition of Indo-China and refusing to guarantee the settlement...
...Pint of Beer. "Facts in Ireland," writes Authoress Honor Tracy, "are very peculiar things. They are rarely allowed to spoil the sweep and flow of conversation." In casting aside the grave, ascetic leader whom many of them had served with respect approaching reverence for three decades, the Irish were characteristically unconcerned with facts. Many grim realities confront Ireland in her 33rd year of independence: an emigration rate that is bleeding her white of young blood at the rate of 20,000 a year, an agricultural economy that has still only one market (the U.K.), a soaring unemployment that reached...
Later, to a group of touring U.S. editors, Tito unburdened himself on one other matter. He was very much concerned, said Communist Tito, that the actions of Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy were undermining the U.S. Government's prestige abroad, and might spoil Europe's good opinion of the U.S. way of life...
...trouble with this system is that the plate and the photoemissive surface have to be kept close together in a vacuum (electrons do not pass through glass), and gases from the plate quickly spoil the sensitive, metallic surface...