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...ZoBell has busied himself for years with the microflora of oil strata, including sea-bottom muds where oil is thought to be formed. His original idea was to study how bacteria modify crude oil (TIME, Dec. 17, 1945). But in 1943, he found in sea mud a comma-shaped bacterium which he named (he was only 38 at the time, and feeling in the pink) desulphovibrio halo-hydrocarbonoclasticus. He put it in a test tube filled with material to simulate a limestone oilsand. Four days later, oil bubbled out of the test tube's mouth. A little later...
...years, the Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association has been experimenting (more or less in secret) with the practical application of Dr. ZoBell's discovery. At present many Pennsylvania oilmen glean their underground fields by forcing water through worked-out strata. They plan to introduce Dr. ZoBell's bacteria along with the water. The bacteria should hunt out and bring to the surface the last drops...
...payoff would come in expanding German exports of china and ceramics, of optical goods, leather goods, pharmaceuticals, and, of course, coal. To make some of these exports possible, the Joint German Economics Committee would have to import petroleum products, crude rubber, lead, hides, wool and cotton...
...good taste, your reviewer means a good, low-down, crude 17th Century Farce whose equal can be found today in any still existent burlesque house, then I am in full agreement with him. For I am quite sure that last night's audience at Radcliffe laughed heartily at what must have seemed to them something quite close to the "Flugle Street" routines of their own experience. "And this does not mean that the Radcliffe performance should be condemned. Indeed, in many places it did certainly achieve, one way or another, the bawdy, rollicking good-humor which its author intended. That...
Just what effect London's action would have on U.S. prices was problematical. As long as the U.S. Government continues buying & selling all crude rubber and controlling the synthetic rubber business, it will make little difference. But the U.S. is expected to permit reopening of the New York market early in 1947. With rubber free on both sides of the Atlantic and with supplies plentiful, prices are likely to drop further. Some guessed that natural rubber would level off around 18? a pound in 1947 (4½? under the Government's present sales price...