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...prostrate on the deep red carpet of the palace. The King watched her with his "hard shrewd bird's eyes." He marched up & down in front of her, placing one foot, encased in a golden, gem-encrusted slipper, directly before the other, as if performing some intricate drill. Suddenly he shouted: "How old shall you be?" Anna was so angry she replied: "One hundred and fifty years old, Sire." The King coughed, laughed, coughed, said, "In what year were you borned?" When Anna said, "1712," the King asked, "How many years shall you be married?" When Anna replied, "Several...
Bill "Dutch Boy" Jones isn't getting much cooperation in his maneuvering as a right guide. Several times lately he's been out in the middle of the drill field before he discovered that his squad was following a straight line, rather than him. The other members of the squad claim that it's easier to see the line than it is to see Jones...
...Hawley system to find these provinces was to "drill all over hell." Confidently oilmen sat back and waited for Tenderfoot Hawley to go broke. By last week there was little chance that this would happen. In Hocking County, Ohio, Wildcatter Hawley had brought in a new well, this time gas. But he had high hopes of drilling deeper and striking...
...Province. But his big strike came last month, after he made a deal with the Carter Oil Co., a Jersey Standard subsidiary, to drill a 15,000-acre tract in Montana, near Roundup (pop. 2,645). Every Rocky Mountain geologist had thumbed it down. But Hawley struck oil on the west side of the tract. Hawley and the Carter Co. promptly divided their holdings in the area, Carter taking the western half and selling the eastern half of the area to Hawley. Smartly he moved his rig to the eastern side. There he brought in a 5,000-bbl. well...
Tone's exactress sister-in-law (Binnie Barnes) plays the camp circuit, drops in for lunch. Tone's father (Henry Stephenson) hasn't time to finish dessert before he's due for Home Guard drill...