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...withstand stormy waters on its exposed offshore location, Freeport will have to erect a drilling platform 60 ft. above the water. Using a method it pioneered, Freeport will pump superheated (330°) salt water down to the rock-imbedded sulphur, melting the mineral and forcing it toward the surface, from where thermos barges will haul the liquid sulphur 25 miles to Port Sulphur...
...surface. In deep holes, conventional muds jell under the intense heat and dry up at 300° F, cause expensive delays. The new muds, DMS (Drilling Mud, Surfacant) and DME (Drilling Mud, Emulsifier), which are chemically similar to automobile antifreeze, work like detergents to eliminate the drill cuttings, withstand pressures up to 20,000 Ibs. per sq. in. at temperatures up to 500°. In the search for more oil, the new muds will make it possible to drill 10,000 ft. deeper: e.g., South Texas, now limited to 15,000 ft., could go to 25,000 ft.; South Louisiana...
...Stand Still. When they swarmed over the X2, engineers found welcome news. Made of heat-resistant stainless steel and nickel alloy with a specially tempered windshield designed to withstand 1,000° F. temperatures, the X-2 was built to probe the "thermal thicket" of supersonic speeds where the heat generated by friction with the atmosphere can turn metal into putty. But there were no thorns in the thicket for the X2. She was untouched...
This effort, however, was not enough to withstand Princeton's groomed oarsmen, who set a Compton Cup mark in defeating the Crimson, Dartmouth, and M.I.T. in that order. The victory established Princeton as the third best crew in Eastern competition, behind Cornell and Yale, and made the varsity an underdog against the Elis in June...
Bony, surefooted, able to withstand heat and live on prickly pear and little water, the longhorn was a perfect mate for the environment and multiplied on the wild ranges. By the time the Lone Star State won its independence, there were 80,000 longhorns in Texas, more critters than humans. Yet by 1920 the longhorn was almost extinct. It carried too much leg, flank and horn in proportion to edible beef, and cowmen simply could not afford to keep...