Word: hcl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it will not attack steel casing or tubing. The acid doctor pulls out the tubing and pumping equipment, runs the tubing back with a packer 15 ft. above the bottom so acid will not run up the hole, squirts in 1,400 to 3,000 gal. of HCl. Rushing through a two-inch tubing, the acid eats into the | limestone so fast that it creates a partial vacuum at the top of the line...
During the post-War inflation people used to talk a lot about the High Cost of Living. The HC of L was belabored in song and skit. Socialites protested the HCL by sporting overalls. As prices continued to mount, a nation-wide buyers' strike developed that was not broken until Wanamaker's department stores in Manhattan and Philadelphia suddenly slashed prices one morning in May, 1920-thus dating the beginning of the post-War depression...
With the next crop and forage season still months away there was little indication that the HCL would soon cease to be a bitter household debate...