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Led by Ohio Oil, the big U.S. oil companies swarmed over Polecat Bench. Last August Phillips Petroleum and Standard of Indiana's Stanolind paid the U.S. Government $1.407,500 for drilling rights on 262½acres of Federal land in Elk Basin-the highest price ever bid for the...
My nomination goes to Professor Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin. . . .
Oxygen's discoverer is supposed by most English-speaking people to have been Britain's Joseph Priestley, who identified the gas in 1774. But France's Antoine Lavoisier observed the chemical properties of "air," which he later named oxygen, in 1772. Germans credit the discovery to Karl...
Its discoverer is a young Selas physical chemist named John M. Walker. He has astonished engineers with some of his demonstrations: e.g., he pours a mixture of kerosene and water into a tube; the liquid comes out rapidly through the pores of two closed-end porcelain cylinders which are the...
Married. Josef von Sternberg, 49, magniloquent discoverer and first director of Marlene Dietrich; and Jeanne Annette McBride, 21, his brunette ex-secretary; he for the second time; in Hollywood.