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...million bbl.-65 million more than last year. Oil production in Texas and Oklahoma has been chopped back drastically; Venezuela, which sends 20% of its crude production to the U.S., has been forced to reduce production even more. Canadian oil sales are in bad shape, and refinery runs of Alberta crude, which comprises 90% of Canada's oil, are at a new low of 271,958 bbl. daily. Only in the Middle East is production still climbing; even there economists fear that oil companies out for quick profits, and Arab rulers anxious for heavier royalties from the wells...
...white fibers leading from the retinas of both eyes to the visual center in the back of the brain, and other fibers leading from the frontal cortex (associated with intellectual and reasoning functions) to other parts of the brain. George Congrave, 21, a chemical engineering student from Edson, Alberta, seemed likely to spend the rest of his life more like a vegetable than...
...future. Canadian oil exports to the Pacific Coast are running around 82,000 bbl. a day. At most, they are likely to go down no more than 5%. But Canadian oil economists projected a major increase in shipments, anticipated that in five or six years oil-rich Alberta, for example, would be pumping 400,000 bbl. of oil daily into the U.S. market. Any move to set limits on Canadian oil imports was a signal to Canada not to count too much on the U.S. to absorb her rising oil production. Moreover, the curb fell at a bad time...
...flying machine, a mosquito is not efficient, but since its weight is low it gets 450 million miles per gallon of nectar, which it uses as fuel. In the Scientific Monthly, Professor Brian Hocking of the University of Alberta tells about his experiments with the flight of insects. He puts his subjects on a "flight mill": a delicate arm that turns round and round, propelled by a buzzing insect cemented to its tip. A photoelectric cell counts the revolutions, and from its records the insect's speed, power and mileage can be computed...
...industries felt a painful squeeze. Automobile sales for the first eight months of the year were off 6%. Newsprint production declined in September and was expected to dip further in the final quarter; higher production costs had trimmed paper-company profits by 20% to 30%. In prospering Alberta, a slump in both domestic and export sales of crude oil cut scheduled November production to the lowest rate in 2½ years. Drilling was off, and one drilling contractor reported: "One third of our rigs are down and the others are not making any money." And prairie farmers counted their losses...