Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scouts to Washington. A staff of nearly 200 doctors was kept busy examining every arrival to prevent any infectious disease getting started. In the first 48 hours only five boys were sent to Naval Hospital where arrangements had been made to hospitalize any Scout requiring more than 24 hours treatment: two had appendectomies, one a broken arm, one a bad case of poison ivy, one mumps. Doctors continued to make daily inspections of all Scouts who had had any contact with the mumps boy. Each troop held sick call every morning...
...dead had been shot in the back. Mrs. Lupe Marshall, a 30-year-old, little, Mexican-born social worker at Chicago's Hull House, told how she had been clubbed, put in a patrol wagon with 16 other wounded, none of whom had had first-aid treatment...
...impressively successful technique for hiking oil production is treatment with acid. In certain limestone formations, acid treatment not only "brings in" or increases production on new wells but rejuvenates old ones. Object of pumping in acid is to eat out new channels in the limestone. Hydrochloric acid is used, chemically inhibited so that it will not attack steel casing or tubing. The acid doctor pulls out the tubing and pumping equipment, runs the tubing back with a packer 15 ft. above the bottom so acid will not run up the hole, squirts...
...well in Roane County was yielding a dribble of twelve barrels per month. Acid treatment boosted production to 628 bbl. per month. The company gained $12,000 for a treatment costing...
...Vandergrift has had even better luck with gas wells than with oil. It is not unusual for a Vandergrifted gas formation to increase its yield by 1,000% to 7,000%. Few weeks ago a gas well in Boone County jumped after treatment from 800,000 cu. ft. daily to 3,600,000 cu. ft. Last month Vandergrift branched out into Ohio and Kentucky, did the biggest month's business since he started. Because he knows his trade from the ground down and is willing to go out on a case at any hour, in any season, over...