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...that "enemy H-bombers'' were approaching the capital as part of the fourth nationwide civil defense test, "Operation Alert 1957." Like millions of other Americans in major cities across the U.S., the President of the U.S. was ready to play his part in the nuclear-age fire drill. At 2:10 p.m., hatless, wearing a tan, double-breasted summer suit, he walked across the White House's south lawn, and for the first time boarded his new royal-blue and white Bell Ranger helicopter.* Serious of mien, the President strapped himself in the four-place whirlybird next...
...oilmen all but gave up on the formation's outcropping at Great Slave until last fall, when Phillips and Home Oil geologists decided that Imperial had tried to tap Windy Point's Devonian limestone in the wrong place. In a historic gamble, the two companies decided to drill near Lesser Slave Lake, 450 miles to the south, hoping to find a heavy cap of nonporous rock that had trapped the oil in pools...
...April 22, as company officials gathered round Phillips' Kaybob well, the drill stem broke through to a formation of oil-bearing limestone nearly 10,000 ft. down. The first tests showed a natural flow of more than 2,600 bbl. a day. Nearby, Home Oil's Swan Hills and Virginia Hills wells augered down into the same limestone formation, also found heavy concentrations...
...Cullen left the third grade to work in a candy factory, dabbled in cotton and real estate, then (1930) as a wildcatter, struck deep into the 500-million-barrel Rabb's Ridge oil field, 50 miles from Houston. His method: to take wells others had given up, and drill deeper. After his son and heir was killed in an oil-field accident, Roy Cullen could not give his money away fast enough. He established (1947) the $160 million Cullen Foundation for charitable and educational purposes, gave $25 million in all to the University of Houston, along with...
...Mark VII; Warner) is a stiff salute from TV Star Jack (Dragnet) Webb to the Marine Corps drill instructor. A raucous prowl through the barracks and across the drill fields of Parris Island, the film is not based upon last year's tragic "death march" of a recruit platoon into the Carolina swamps. Made with the blessing and help of the Marine Corps, The D.I. might otherwise almost seem to be anti-Corps propaganda, su ruggedly, almost brutally does it portray the making of a young leatherneck...