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Personal Demon. Hardworking, hard-cussing Kinley, a Californian by birth, has put out 300 fires, has few rivals (many other fire fighters have been killed). He is wealthy enough to retire on his fire fighting earnings (an estimated $100,000 a year), plus royalties on oilfield tools, sold by a company he owns in Houston. But Kinley, who regards fire as a personal demon always scheming to outwit him, can never resist the next jangle of the long-distance fire bell. Says he: "I guess I'll retire when they carry...
...wells; in California, three; in Louisiana, one; in New Mexico, nine; and in Canada, four. He was busiest of all in North Dakota. There, he was drilling 20 wells. For in North Dakota's Williston Basin, Jacobsen has made his biggest strike. He has found many a new oilfield in the past. But in North Dakota he found something far bigger. Says he: "The Williston Basin is not just one oilfield. It is an oil province...
...imports $270 million worth of petroleum a year, equal to 14% of the country's total expenditures for commodities from abroad. Some oilmen think that Brazil has perhaps a sixth of the world's undeveloped oil reserves. But when Vargas, on a recent visit to the Bahia oilfield, plunged his fingers into Brazilian oil, and held them up for his followers to applaud (see cut), Brazil's production was still a mere trickle of 85,000 barrels a day. Congress, taking its cue from the President, is doing its nationalist best to delay the day when Brazil...
...worked hard to catch the industry's roaring youth and hard-muscled energy. In bright oils and deft watercolors, they pictured the bustling Louisiana refineries, the purposeful ranks of derricks marching across western plains, the clanging docks where oil tankers are unloaded. There were scenes of an oilfield set in the middle of a Venezuelan lake, of the eerie orange glow from burning natural gas that lights up some fields at night, of spherical storage tanks, huge gate valves, heavy flow lines and brightly lit cracking plants. There was a symbol of oil in war-two G.I.s tensely guarding...
...Yorba Linda, Calif., a small (present pop. 885), citrus-growing town near Los Angeles, to Frank (Scotch-Irish ancestry) and Hannah Milhous Nixon (Irish-English), who migrated from the Middle West to California in their youth, married in 1908, are still hale & hearty. Father worked as streetcar motorman, oilfield worker, rancher, built filling station at Whittier, Calif., later added a grocery store, now known as Nixon's Market and run by Dick's younger brother...