[BITList] Big Bad Ugly American Ingenuity In Chile

[John Feltham]

>  
> MORE ABOUT BIG, BAD, UGLY-AMERICAN CAPITALIST ENTERPRISES.
>  
> Far be it for an American President to publicly congratulate (let alone
> even mention) AMERICAN ingenuity and AMERICAN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE for the
> miracle rescue of the Chilean Miners.
> 
> Schramm Inc. of West Chester, Pennsylvania built the drills and
> equipment used to reach the trapped miners.
> 
> Center Rock Company, also from Pennsylvania, built the drill bits used
> to reach the miners.
> 
> UPS, the US shipping company, delivered the 13-ton drilling equipment
> from Pennsylvania to Chile in less than 48 hours.
> 
> Crews from Layne Christensen Company of Wichita Kansas and its
> subsidiary Geotec Boyles Bros. worked the drills and machinery to locate
> and reach the miners and then enlarge the holes to ultimately rescue them.
> 
> Jeff Hart of Denver Colorado was called off his job drilling water wells
> for the U.S. Army's forward operating bases in Afghanistan to lead the
> drilling crew that reached the miners.
> 
> Atlas Copco Construction Mining Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin provided
> consulting on how to make drilling equipment from different sources work
> together under differing pressure specifications.
> 
> Aries Central California Video of Fresno California designed the special
> cameras that were lowered nearly a mile into the ground sending back
> video of the miners.
> 
> Zephyr Technologies of Annapolis Maryland, made the remote monitors of
> vital signs that miners will wear during their ascent.
> 
> NASA Engineers designed the "Phoenix" capsule that miners would be
> brought to the surface in, and provided medical consulting, special
> diets and spandex suits to maintain miners' blood pressure as they're
> brought back to the surface.
> 
> Oh, and Canadian-based Precision Drilling Corp. and South-African
> company Murray & Roberts, drilled  backup rescue shafts in case the
> American rig failed. Which it didn't.
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> 
> 
> GO USA
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