"Oil well" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... devastated the economy. Iraq destroyed or damaged more than 80% of Kuwait's 950 operating oil wells, as well as sabotaging key surface facilities. Western firefighters had brought about 140 of the 600 oil well fires and blowouts under control as of early June 1991. It could take two to three years to restore Kuwait's oil production to its prewar level of about 2.0 million barrels ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... built much like an oil well derrick. Inside it are two steel rails to fill grooves in the rocket. These guide the rocket much as rifling in a gun barrel guides a bullet. Prof. Goddard, when teaching at Princeton in 1912, evolved the idea of shooting a rocket to the moon ...
— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various
... "Oil well supplies," said Bassett easily. "Well, in this article it seemed some woman or other had made a confession. It sounded ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... once upon a time, there was a temple over a cleft in the rocks from which gas arises. The gas was kept burning, tended by Parsee priests, for more than two thousand years and until the advent of the modern oil well. This flame was a special object of adoration by the fire-worshippers who were the followers of Zoroaster, and many went there to ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
... dollars!" said the lawyer; "Great heavens! have you found an oil well on your farm, robbed a bank, ...
— The Wedge of Gold • C. C. Goodwin
... able to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces. For exercise of this grace what blessing came to the Shunamite in the restoration of her son to life because she entertained Elisha, and to the widow of Zarephath in the perpetual oil well of the miraculous cruise because she fed a hungry prophet, and to Rahab in the preservation of her life at the demolition of Jericho because she entertained the spies and to Laban in the formation of an interesting family relation because of his entertainment ...
— The Wedding Ring - A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those - Contemplating Matrimony • T. De Witt Talmage |
