Sentences with phrase «of oil derricks»

1932 Against a bristling backdrop of oil derricks at Long Beach, Calif., Germany (left) defeated Italy in four - oared shells with cox for gold medal Meanwhile, in the Los Angeles Coliseum, Mildred (Babe) Didrikson (right), then just 18, won 80 - meter hurdles and javelin throw, finished second in the high jump.

It also sorts out the wheat from the chaff — so that in this case companies with weak safety profiles don't get within a mile of an oil derrick.

Not exact matches

Billy got started playing after breaking his back falling out of a 125 - foot oil derrick.

Ensconced amidst the derricks of Berry Petroleum Company's oil field in McKittrick, Calif., the 650 - square - meter demonstration of a greenhouse - based solar thermal steam plant will help pre-heat water to 88 degrees Celsius.

Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) jumps and shoots his way across oil derricks, only to hand over the reins to the blander heroes of the previous film.

Heir to the testosterone cinema of Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray, Berg's films also find a kind of poetry in opposition, with Friday Night Lights» establishing shots of Texas's huge, glowering big sky country and insensate oil derricks pumping in silhouette set against the mayfly quickening of young men frozen for an instant that is, for many of them, meant to last a lifetime.

For phallic symbolism, Dorothy Malone stroking a model of her tycoon daddy's oil derrick is hard to top.

Oil derricks pump forlornly in the background as the town struggles to survive, making Arash's fancy, shiny car seem like the most pointed of anachronisms.

When Mr. Simchowitz met Parker Ito (whose work sold at a February auction in London for $ 93,594 over a high estimate of $ 25,000), he had a day job painting oil derricks near LAX, Los Angeles County still a surprising source of untapped crude.

Some of the early works are at least somewhat representational, with recognizable human figures or in the case of a sketch he made while in California in 1930 recognizable oil derricks.

In Time as Perspective it is not clear whether the landscape with its rhythmically pumping oil derricks is a historical shot or a vision of the future.

What's more, the same team discovered three additional new species of these distinctive, snake - like lizards that are also living in some inhospitable - sounding places for wildlife: at a vacant lot in downtown Bakersfield, among oil derricks in the lower San Joaquin Valley and on the margins of the Mojave desert.»

Our careers have been dedicated to the representation of workers and seamen aboard ships, tugs, fishing boats, fish processors, trawlers, draggers, longliners, crabbers, seiners, factory trawlers, gillnetters, offshore oil rigs, pleasure boats, barges, pile drivers, and derricks.

We represent seamen injured or taken ill aboard fishing vessels, fish processors, crab boats, tug boats, ships, ferry boats, derricks, barges, dredges, and all other types of vessels, including aircrafts at sea and offshore oil rigs.

Specialists also spearhead and coordinate building and operation of drills, oil derricks and other equipment used in the drilling process.