Serious pipe shortage slows U S oil drilling amid steel strike
The steel strike cuts oil well activity across Texas and Gulf Coast firms. From 60 to 200 tons of steel pipe per well are needed, with shipments delayed by up to a month after a strike began June 2. Texas Co and Texaco warn rig counts will fall. drillers seek foreign and second hand pipes to cope.
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Associated Press
A. W. Thompson
Houston
American Association of Oi
Macaolia Petroleum Col
Dallas
Doornt
Min
Mim
Texas Co
Cit
Texaco
John Ritter
Sion
Texas
Gulf Coast
Ritter
Atlantic Oil and Refining Co
Atlantic
Gulf Oil of Houston
Hume Oil and Refining Co
Humble
Underground gas blasts rock downtown Columbus injure two firemen
A series of underground sewer gas explosions in downtown Columbus near noon Saturday damaged an automobile over a manhole and knocked out communications. Two firemen were injured and teletype lines to the Columbus bureau were temporarily severed as crews traced the underground fire in an electric company cable.
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Columbus
Ohio
United Press
Sessions Open Wednesday In Michigan For Pilot Club Meet
Mrs. Bess Ford will represent Pilot Club of Lubbock at the Pilot International conference in Mackinac Island Grand Hotel Michigan. About 600 women from the United States and Canada attend with delegates from York City and England France Japan Mexico Bermuda. The Vimoutiers welfare project is highlighted as the five year goal rebuilt after 1944 bombings. Dr Grace S Nutley will deliver the principal address during the sessions and banquet.
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Bess Ford
28Th St
Pilot Club of Lubbock
Pilot International
Mackinac Island
Mich
Grand Hotel
United States
Canada
York City
England
France
Japan
Mexico
Bermuda
Helen Hoffman
International Organization
Office of Internal Revenue
Washington, D. C
Grace Stuart Nutley
Navy to lay keel of Forrestal July 14 in Virginia
The Navy announced that the 59,900 ton supercarrier Forrestal will have its keel laid on July 14 with Defense Secretary Robert Lovett presiding. The ceremony will occur at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co in Virginia, with an estimated launch in March 1954.
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Washington
Navy
Forrestal
Defense
Robert Lovett
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co
Virginia
Waxey Gordon Funeral Services Slated In New York City Today
New York on June 28 funeral services for Irving Waxey Gordon Wexler a prohibition era hoodlum millionaire who died in Alcatraz Tuesday night will be held here tomorrow. Wexler aged 63 died of a heart attack after being moved from San Francisco by air to New York his body arriving last night. Two men from a funeral chapel met the plane and carried away his redwood coffin. He had been serving a narcotics sentence in New York State and was moved to Alcatraz to await trial on another narcotics led crime charge.
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New York
Irving Waxey
Gordon Wexler
Alcatraz
Wexler
San Francisco
United Airlines
New York State
Glass houses: GE builds moisture proof material test chamber
New York report notes General Electric constructs a plastic and glass moisture proof chamber not for living in. It withstands stones and serves as a testing environment for materials.
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New York
General Electric Company
Harriman Sets Bid for Indiana Delegates July 7
W Averell Harriman plans to seek a share of Indiana s pro Stevenson 26 vote Democratic convention delegation July 7. He will meet Gov Henry Schricker at noon and later address party leaders and delegates. Indiana delegates are unpledged but favored Stevenson by Schricker Skillen and other top figures.
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Indianapolis
Mutual Security
W. Averell Harriman
Indiana
Harriman
Henry F. Schricker
Schricker
Charles Skillen
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
New Yorker Reports Fire Instead Of Window Repair
A New Yorker named Christopher Glackin summoned help for a stuck window and was hospitalized for mental observation after eight fire department units and a magistrate responded to his report of fire. The incident occurred in New York on June 28.
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New York
Glazer
Christopher Glackin
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