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Photograph of a worker at Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s |
Press release attached to back of photo: "A roughneck fits a new Hughes Jet bit into the drill collar preparatory to running the drill stem into the hold. In 1953 more than 500,000 rock bits produced by the Hughes... |
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Portrait photograph of Hughes Tool Company Executive Noah Dietrich, circa 1940s-1950s |
A portrait photograph of Noah Dietrich, Chief Executive Officer of the Howard Hughes Corporation from 1925-1957. |
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Photograph of worker in Hughes Machine Shop, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s |
The Hughes Laboratory machine shop is devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool and joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop is equipped to... |
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Photograph of Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s |
Men and women in the Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop are devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop... |
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Photograph of employee in Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s |
The Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop is devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop is equipped to manufacture... |