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Anne Putnam is just what the author ordered in the title role of Mashenka. She's sweet without being sloppy, and sparkling without the dangers of effervescing. Igor Gorsky, as her secret love, roars through the part of an enthusiastic Soviet geologist, Leonid, apparently bent on getting the Five-Year Plan through before the rains...
Oldtime oil geologist Arville Irving Levorsen said the U.S. had a 20 billion barrel oil reserve-enough to last 14 years at the current consumption rate. But even in an extreme emergency the U.S. could not get more than one-fifth this oil in the next few years. (The U.S. consumed over 1.2 billion barrels of oil for 1939's peaceable purposes.) Four other oilmen backed him up, declared a 25 to 50? a barrel rise over the present average $1.15 level would be necessary to revive wildcatting...
...Geologist Pratt is specific and scientific. Petroleum was formed (perhaps a billion years ago) from animal and plant remains in the shallow-water marine oozes when their sands and mud solidified into rock. Rocks of this kind comprise 40% of the earth's land surface. Almost all of them should contain oil. With only 15% of the world's potential oil-yielding rock, the U.S. has 54% of the world's proved reserves. The only reason for this, says Geologist Pratt, is U.S. know-how. If & when Asia, Africa, South America acquire the same nose...
This does not mean that the U.S. will continue to dominate the petroleum industry. The rate of discovery of new oil in the U.S. has been falling steadily for five years (TIME. Nov. 17). Frederic H. Lahee, chief Sun Oil geologist, points out that in 1937 almost 1,700,000 barrels of oil were discovered for every wildcat hole drilled. By 1941 the figure was only 622,000 barrels. If this downward trend continues for another five years, new oil discoveries will fall below the amount used and oil reserves may begin a disastrous decline...
Three crudely carved sandstone heads-the oldest and most puzzling sculptures ever found in the Western Hemisphere-must remain a mystery until the war's end. So said Geologist Elias H. Sellards of the University of Texas last fortnight. Reason: geologists are now too busy prospecting for war-scarce minerals to investigate further. The heads, weighing roughly 100 lb. each, were found several years ago in gravel pits near Malakoff, Tex. Since faking prehistoric relics is a good-sized industry in the Southwest, geologists were startled to find the heads genuine, more startled to find that they date from...