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Conventional oil drilling is vertical: drill ers bore a narrow shaft down through the layer of sedimentary rock in which the oil is stored. From the small shaft surf ace they usually get only about 20% of the oil actually present...
High Time. In Summerfield, Kans., pupils at the Summerfield School did their monthly fire drill, filed outdoors, took a look at the roof, promptly called the fire department...
...Black Jack." The A.E.F. grew up. Pershing was methodical. He made a fetish of writing things down in his clear, clipped style-with no metaphors, pseudo or otherwise. He made the A.E.F. drill. He insisted that infantrymen be taught to shoot, though the French clucked. The French depended on hand grenades. He was more than ever the spit-&-polish disciplinarian. To his officers "Black Jack" (the nickname he picked up when he was with the Negro loth) was God. To the enlisted men he was both God and devil. Some remembered him striding across a muddy field of France with...
...least he has emerged from under that white stuff. . . . Bernie Lange, who also spent a day or so under the hoary grease, missed the chance of a life time Monday by being the little man who wasn't there when called to lead the entire company back from drill. The episode developed into a triple play. Keith Bond was the next guy called, but his voice cracked and he gave way to the astute George Funk, who is definitely the executive type...
...course this is the one year that the teams could have counted on clear weather. It never rains on Saturdays between 1:30 and 3:30. We know. That's when we drill...