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This is a familiar scare. Time & again U.S. oil reserves have fallen sharply, only to be replenished by a big new discovery. But previous discoveries were also preceded by a phenomenon not now present: rising prices for crude...
...catnip for the wildcats, oilmen have a standard recipe: higher oil prices. In San Francisco last week Cities Service Oil President William Alton Jones asserted: "Unquestionably a higher price would increase exploration ... 25? tacked on to the current $1.20 price (midcontinent crude) would stimulate a 20% expansion...
...must have remembered Nikolai Lenin's praise of his article in 1905 on governing minorities, the first time he used the signature J. Stalin: "We have here a wonderful Georgian." Nor could he forget Lenin's final repudiation of him as too "crude and narrow-minded" four months before Lenin's death. But gradually he had created a new Lenin of his own, a legend to be his own backdrop. He could afford in 1939 to be one of the sad-faced bearers of the ashes of Lenin's widow; he now can face Lenin...
...materials essential for war purposes. Although last August the United States shut off exports of aviation fuel to Japan, Nipponese officials claim that American and Dutch concerns have stocked her with enough gasoline for a year. Furthermore, rumors are of ten heard that our oil companies are still sending crude fuel which is cracked upon arrival. We are still shipping scrap iron, tin plate, cotton, aluminum, lumber, and hides, and are still buying silk...
Platinum & Diamond Dust. A pioneer of powder metallurgy was an Englishman, William Hyde Wollaston, who in 1829 described a process for working platinum, whose melting point (3224° F.) was too high for the crude furnaces then in use. As better furnaces were developed, his technique was little used until about 1910 when U.S. scientists, notably General Electric's William David Coolidge, revived it as the only practical way of making ductile tungsten (melting point 6100° F.) from which thin wires for light bulb filaments could then be drawn through holes in diamonds...