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...Divinity School had hoped to bring the Thomist scholar Etienne Gilson from France to fill the professorship. When a sudden illness prevented Gilson from coming, it was decided to use the funds from the chair to sponsor the conference...
...passing hampered the Crimson's efforts to tie the game, and several scrambles in front of the Bruin goal produced nothing. Crimson wing Sam Rodd was stopped twice, once on a nice save by Bruin goalie Pete Gilson, and once on a trip by Haskell as he broke loose down the sideline...
Both teams returned after the half-time break with plans for waiting for a break in the opposition's defense. The break for the Crimson came at 1:25 when outside left Chris Martin dribbled in on the far left and fired a shot at Brown goalie Pete Gilson. Sweeney, in the midst of a gang-up near the goal, slipped in the mud but tipped the ball into the goal with a flat, slow-rolling shot. Gilson was caught on the wrong side of the crease...
...major problem, beyond solution with the techniques of Pioneer Gilson's day, was to move the Gilsonite out of mountains in bulk at low cost. American Gilsonite's solution is a 72-mile-long, $2,500,000 pipeline which daily carries a slurry of 700 tons from the minehead at Bonanza, Utah over 700-ft. gorges and across an 8,500-ft. pass to the refinery...
...gasoline obtained from Gilsonite that it has a higher octane rating than several premium leaded brands. American Gilsonite figures the cost of a barrel of its crude, laid down at the refinery, is $1.50 to $2, v. $3.25 for a barrel of liquid petroleum. And the supply old Sam Gilson found is enough to operate the plant for over 50 years. With rights to 60% of all the known Gilsonite in the world, the company figures that it has at least 16 million recoverable tons, the equivalent of 100 million bbl. of underground oil-a major petroleum field...