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...half from the academy's planned enrollment of 2,600. As at the older academies, cadets will be nominated mainly by Congressmen. The Air Force has already planned a sinewy four-year curriculum (1,548 hours of humanities, 1,629 of science, 2,176 of airmanship, including drill as well as flight), and intends to build, besides school buildings and barracks, an air field and a stadium for the football team...
believes that the continental shelf is at least as rich in oil, acre for acre, as the narrow coastal strip of Texas and Louisiana. He predicts that within five years a vigorous drilling campaign in water up to 150 feet deep should find oil reserves of four to six billion barrels. Beyond the 150-foot line, the shelf should be just as rich, and no one knows in what depth of water the drillers can learn to drill...
From a distance, the DeLong platform looks like nothing else on land or sea. It stands serenely above the water while the waves slosh among its eight thick legs. Schools of fish and porpoises swim around it, and files of comic pelicans flap slowly past. All the time the drill is turning, biting into the rock thousands of feet below. If the platform must be moved, the barge shins slowly down its legs and pulls them out of the mud. A complete move takes less than a day, and costs less than moving a drill rig on land...
...such an interpretation of international law, which has always con sidered that the high seas belong to all nations in common. As far as precedent goes, there is nothing to prevent the Brit ish, for instance, from building an oil navy on the Clyde and sailing it down to drill for oil just outside Louisiana's three-mile limit...
...more than the disputed 800,000 shares voted in his favor by Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson. Central President William White, conducting his last stockholders' meeting in a hot, sticky office at the Albany railroad station, with blinds drawn for an air-raid drill, sadly made the official announcement that Young had bombed him out of his job. There would be no quibbling or court fights. Said White: "The time for that is past... I will not remain as president of the New York Central...