Word: nj
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether these increased risks are the reason or not, wildcatters are not finding as much oil as they used to. Geologist Wallace E. Pratt of Standard Oil of NJ. figures that brand-new oil discoveries in 1938-40 were only 2.6 billion bbl. against 5.15 billion in 1934-36. In 1928-30, when east Texas came in, the figure topped 10 billion. Demand, meanwhile, rose from 2.9 billion in 1928-30 to 4.3 billion in 1938-40. The lines are going in opposite directions, are leaving an oilless gap which may some day burn out the gears of U.S. industry...
...after Civilian Defense Chief Fiorello LaGuardia had described the new 50.000 watt transmitter's insurance against wartime interruption (if power lines fail, it can run on its own generator, pick up the studio by micro-wave), the shift was made from WABC's old antennae near Wayne, NJ...
Died. Poetess Aline Murray Kilmer, 53, widow of Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees); in Stillwater, NJ...
...Ended was a week-long strike at Curtiss-Wright's propeller plant in Caldwell, NJ. A.F. of L. machinists agreed to go back to work while the Mediation Board weighed their grievances...
...GUENTHER Bordentown, NJ...