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...about the cinema's attitude toward mother love. Always Goodbye sheds no new light on the subject, but sound motivation, civilized dialogue, several noteworthy minor performances and Producer Darryl Zanuck's customary flair combine to lift the film well above the average of sentimental social drama. Best bit parts: the stereotyped roles of an excitable barber and a mercenary Paris taxi driver, brought to life respectively by Eddy Conrad and George Davis...
...idea of making a record when the well was started. Encouraged by oil and gas strikes in a radius of 25 miles, they thought they would hit producing sand at 9,000 or 10,000 ft. They "spudded in" at midnight on June 21, 1937, using a 20-in. bit. In drilling for oil, the bit is carried on a shaft of hollow pipe, in 30-ft. lengths screwed together. A powerful steam engine on the surface spins the pipe and the bit. When a bit needs changing, all the pipe must be snaked out of the hole and then...
...first 500 ft. were like a "knife through cheese." There the driller switched to a 15¼-in. bit. At 9,500 ft., drilling speed had dropped to a foot an hour, and a new bit was needed every 25 ft. At 11,600 ft., the mud pressure was 9,000 lb. per sq. in. Apparently this huge force squeezed the water out of the mud into a porous sand formation at that depth, so that the mud caked and "froze" the bit collar. The drill pipe was fished out with difficulty but the collar was immovable. By means...
...started off practice from their Rep Top quarters on June 11 with a time trial, the Freshman pacing the Varsity for the first two miles. The following Monday Coach Bolles put the Crimson sweepers through a vigorous workout, a five-mile no-stop, stretch which found the Varsity a bit unsteady and rough in spots...
...their amazement, a jet of diabolic yellow flame spurted from the water, fizzled for several seconds before going out. When he passed the same way a quarter-hour later, the students were still arguing about how he did it. What the scientist had done was to conceal a bit of metallic sodium in a piece of paper in his hand. Sodium is so active chemically that it burns on contact with water. Dr. Wood's histrionics while spitting concealed the fact that he simultaneously dropped the sodium into the puddle...