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...this activity fortified an ancient hope of U.S. geologists: that the great Gulf oil strata of Texas and Louisiana sweep eastward clear to the Atlantic and northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every...
...Price of Peace. Joe Day's discoveries about selling real estate coincided with the northward expansion of Manhattan. As he progressed from one "biggest deal in history" to the next, feature writers repeated the Joseph P. Day legends over & over. He was the man who used no gavel to knock down his sales, but had the auction block padded to keep his right hand from fracturing; the man who relaxed his nerves by quaffing pineapple juice and having two strong-arm men grip his arms and his heels and try to pull him apart; the man who invariably breakfasted...
Most important, the line can usually be laid faster than an embattled army can advance. Last week in mountainous southern Italy, where regular fuel transport would have bogged down, Army pipeline engineers were impatiently waiting for Cassino to be taken so they could extend their system northward...
...young. Green Bay fishermen began to notice something wrong last winter, when dead smelts popped up through their fishing holes in the ice. By spring great shoals of dead fish were being washed ashore and the lake bottoms were carpeted with them. The unknown malady spread rapidly northward through Huron and Michigan, but apparently left untouched the smaller smelt populations of Erie, Ontario and Superior...
South Battle. The Army found the going slower on Kwajalein Island, whose strong pockets held out until battleships and bombers were recalled to help the land-based artillery and bazookas. Kwajalein's pillbox-to-pillbox struggle ended after four days, and Corlett's soldiers rushed northward to capture Ebeye with its seaplane base, Loi and Gugegwe...