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...reserves of at least 200 million metric tons-ten times France's present annual consumption. With two years to wait for a full-sized 24-in. pipeline from the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast, the French strung the baby pipeline across 93 miles of desert from Hassi Messaoud northward to Touggourt and widened 120 miles of narrow-gauge railway to transport the oil from Touggourt to the coast. One barrel of oil delivered to France in this cumbersome fashion costs an estimated ten times as much as a barrel imported some 6,000 miles from Texas-but the French...
...lines would make the united road the eleventh largest U.S. company, with combined assets of more than $5 billion. The Pennsylvania's 9,963 miles of road, running from the mid-Atlantic states westward to St. Louis and Chicago, and the Central's 10,600 miles, reaching northward to Boston, Albany and Quebec and westward to Chicago and St. Louis, serve the nation's most highly industrialized area. The lines own millions of dollars in property (including Grand Central station and a huge chunk of Park Avenue real estate, Pennsy's Pennsylvania Stations in New York...
...Sahara this year: getting the oil from Hassi Messaoud through the rebel country to the Mediterranean seaboard is practically impossible. In the desert, where no man can hide from the hovering helicopter, there is no trouble from the rebel fellagha, but the wild Atlas Mountains, which bar all routes northward from the oilfield, shelter some of the toughest Moslem rebel gangs. On the final 150-mile stretch of the railroad from Oran there have been continuous attacks by rebels for a year. In one night the line was cut by explosions in 45 places: it must be de-mined every...
...Great Slave Lake area 540 miles north of Edmonton, where Canada's timberlands fade into bleak muskeg swamps stretching northward toward the pole, the signs of oil are as persistent as the mosquitoes. The first Canadian explorers found lakes covered with oil seeping from holes in the ground. Indians and traders skimmed it off for their cook fires, scooped up fistfuls of the rich black muck to waterproof their boots. But to commercial oilmen, the potential of the Great Slave oil has long been only a tantalizing dream. No one had much encouragement until this year. Then Phillips Petroleum...
...hole, where she had actually shot a six. When the error was discovered she was disqualified. The new women's open champion: South Carolina's Betsy Rawls, who had the second best 72-hole total of 299. ¶Turning the biennial Newport-Annapolis race around and sailing northward made some refreshing changes in the East Coast yachting classic: more boats than ever before (48) beat down Chesapeake Bay from the starting line; they swung north toward -Newport, and 32 of them broke the elapsed-time record for the 468-mile course. Winner on corrected time...