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With the naming of these men for Commencement honors, in part because of their wartime achievements, the University followed up last year's presentations, which saw honorary doctorates conferred on four of the nation's war leaders--Eisenhower, Arnold, Nimitz, and Vandergrift...
...will make coming out of 2" tubing; and just how damn slick a rig floor can get after the first few barrels of Big Injun crude has squirted up and hit the crown pulley and is now raining down through the rig like an April cloud burst. . . . JIM VANDERGRIFT...
...when she was the wife of an impecunious U. S. Navy officer, used to send over her seamstress to copy Mrs. Gordon's gowns, by permission, when the latter would return from Paris with another trunkful. Of aristocratic Dutch descent, the U. S. Minister's wife, nee Vandergrift, has many friends, some relatives in The Netherlands...
First attempts in sandstone failed. When experiments in limestone began to look promising, Vandergrift decided to confine his practice to the limestone formations of West Virginia, moved to Spencer, arriving there in 1934 with a few gallons of acid, a few dollars, no orders, much confidence. Now he has dozens of admiring customers, including subsidiaries of Standard Oil of New Jersey, South Penn Oil Co.. Columbia Gas & Electric. Carnegie Steel, Chesebrough Manufacturing Co. Some Vandergrift results...
...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...