Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mather as Moderator...
These startling assertions express the views of two ranking U.S. geologists who agreed last week that large parts of every continent (with the possible exception oi Australia) are soaked with petroleum, Wrote Harvard's Professor Kirtley F Mather in Science: there is "no chance' that the U.S., which has produced two-thirds of the world's oil, has any monopoly of it. Wrote Wallace E. Pratt, a director of Standard Oil of New Jersey: finding oil requires a "delicate synchronization of science, machinery, and the human equation" that is peculiarly American. His new book...
...Townhall of the Air, featuring four Harvard speakers and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, as moderator, will originate from Sander Theater on September 10 and broadcast over a coast-to-coast hookup...
...gunner's post. Columnist Hedda ("The Gabbler") Hopper promptly announced that because of an old agreement this meant Robert Taylor and Spencer Tracy would also enlist at the same time. Meantime Gable m.c.'d a War Department short-wave broadcast for the armed forces abroad, helped Mather Field's Army Air Forces Lieut. Jimmy Stewart overwhelm goggle-eyed Torcheuse Dinah Shore, in Hollywood for a screen career...
Even if the Germans should capture these fields, Professor Mather said, the United Nations would have about a year to fight while the Germans would still be handicapped by lack of fuel. The Russians, deprived of their Caucasian oil fields and refineries, could fall back on now wells which have been developed and large stores of oil which have been set aside...