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Army's Contract. To Washington and Whitehorse and Norman Wells shuttled U.S. and Canadian officials and oilmen. Finally a contract was signed by which the U.S. Army would help develop the field. It would also build a pipeline of some 500 miles for the crude to a U.S. refinery at Whitehorse, plus gasoline lines to Skagway (on tidewater), Fairbanks, and the airfield at Watson Lake. In all. some 1,600 miles of pipeline, over the toughest terrain imaginable, plus an oilfield as industrially remote as Africa...
...pictures (and those of imitators) were charmingly naive and generalized, and just as crude as the steel engravings produced by such famed commercial forbears as Boston's Paul Revere. They were designed to fit every advertiser's needs. There were pictures of bonnets for milliners, bottles for perfumers and brewers, elephants for circuses, fleeing figures for owners of runaway slaves, corsets for modistes, puffing trains for railroads...
...rather less than a lady, and both of them rather more primordially interested in each other than the Hays Office likes to feel that people should be. Director William Seiter seems to have fallen just short of a new sort of realistic, deeply indigenous comedy. His picture is often crude, sometimes raw, but definitely worth seeing...
Said Wiess: "The U.S. has reached or is rapidly approaching the point where it is, or will be, producing crude oil at the maximum efficient rate...
Alternatives. To make up the deficit, cautious Mr. Wiess has no painless cureall, only alternatives. They are: 1) stimulate the drilling of oil wells and exploration for new fields by raising crude-oil prices (or lowering taxes); 2) increase oil imports; 3) reduce civilian consumption by more drastic rationing...