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...first trip to Africa just after graduation from Vassar, Mrs. Hubbard accompanied her husband, a geologist. Instead of mining asbestos as planned, they spent three years in Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese North Africa capturing animals for zoos...
...industrial harbor district is laced with dikes and retaining walls to keep the sea off the land. The Ford plant and the power station are protected by levees 20 ft. high. If nothing is done to stop it, says Geologist Frank S. Hudson, the sinking will continue until the center of the depression has sunk 72 ft. below high-water mark. If this happens, the harbor department alone will have to spend $60 million on subsidence remedies...
...Davis, 58, executive vice president of Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest U.S. domestic producer (300,000 bbl. daily), will succeed President Hines H. Baker, 63. Baker retires as president and director next month, will become a director of Humble's parent company, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). The first geologist to occupy Humble's presidency, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 190 lbs.) Morgan Davis joined Humble in 1925 after graduating from the University of Texas, left to become resident geologist in Sumatra for a Dutch petroleum firm, returned to Humble in 1934 as district geologist for New Mexico, rose...
Written on the Wind (Universal-International) opens with Rock Hudson, geologist for a Texas oil company, taking Lauren Bacall, a secretary, to lunch at a swank Manhattan saloon where there is no telling what a pretty girl may be offered after the dessert. There she meets Robert Stack, an oil millionaire who quickly establishes the fact that he is a rich Texan by debonairly putting out his cigarette in a glass of champagne. Texan Stack asks Lauren to go for a ride before going back to the office. She accepts. Some hours later, the ride ends in Miami, where...
Died. Everette Lee DeGolyer, 70, pioneer oil geologist, multimillionaire oilman, wide-ranging book collector; by his own hand (.38 revolver) after long illness; in Dallas (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...