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...board of directors, most of whom came up as Holman did, stratum by stratum. The board chairman is Frank W. Abrams, 57, who started in Standard as a draftsman, came up the refining side. The executive committee of the board meets every day with Holman. It is the gusher which produces the policy on Standard's worldwide problems. It is Holman who refines the policy and distributes it. Actually, most of the day-by-day problems are sensibly solved by subsidiaries on the scene. This is partly due to the Standard dictum: first get efficient and then...
...penicillin a drug or an argument? Doctors have been awed and appalled by a gusher of argumentative books and reports claiming that 1) penicillin will cure almost anything; 2) its victories have been only temporary because the bugs are fighting back. Out this week came still another. This one was authoritative: it was written by penicillin's discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, and a group of British colleagues (Penicillin: Its Practical Application; the Blakiston Co.; $7). The book wraps up in one well-documented package just about everything worth knowing about the wonder drug...
Through the day, more & more workers joined the Tudeh men and tempers rose with the mercury, which hit a Zoroastrian 160°. By nightfall, when officials still refused to negotiate-the mob's fury burst like a rogue oil gusher...
Then a drive was begun to declare federal sovereignty and ownership over the submerged lands. Partly it was inspired by would-be claim-jumpers who saw a chance to muscle in on a gusher of oil and dollars. Partly it was the work of the Navy which wanted to have a great reserve of oil set aside for war. The claim-seekers and the Navy soon had "Honest Harold" on their side, for whatever that might be worth. In dealing with congressional committees, it was not much...
Mississippi Mud. Heidelberg, a dirt-poor whistle stop (pop. 615) in the red-clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around...