Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lying alluvial plain. the entire coastal fringe of Louisiana is as soggy as a piece of fresh bread dunked in soup. Crisscrossed by bayous and canals. the Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many rich "domes" of oil and sulphur which lie beneath. To locate these deposits is hard work. In most places the swamp is so treacherous it will engulf a man standing upright. In most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still got next to nowhere...
...National Park Service headquarters on the University of California campus at Berkeley, men were hard at work last week framing, glazing and cataloging a collection of 198 oil and watercolor paintings. At the same time, high in the snows of Yosemite, Director C. A. ("Bert") Harwell of the Yosemite National Park Museum was scratching his head over the largest windfall his institution had ever received...
...today Dow is the biggest thing in Mid land. Most of the company's 3,700 employes, including 500 scientists and technicians, live there. The plant stretches over 250 acres, contains more than 300 buildings, 16 mi. of railroad track. From 125 wells which look like oil wells come the salts from which Dow refines the ele ments of bromine, chlorine, iodine and magnesium, then makes the chemical compound's which reach the consumer under a hundred different names...
...Long Beach, Calif., the lo-Dow Chemical Co. produces a substantial per centage of all U. S. iodine. At Tulsa, Okla., Tampico, Mexico and other oil-producing areas subsidiaries process oil and gas wells to make them more productive. At Bay City, Mich., 18 mi. from Midland on Lake Huron, Dow now makes a magnesium alloy that is one-third lighter than aluminum and good for airplane and machinery parts. At Marquette, Mich., on Lake Superior, a subsidiary called Cliffs Dow Chemical Co., in which the parent company has a 60% interest, makes charcoal, combustible gases and acids from wood...
...less affected than the standard staples were minor commodities. In the past month kerosene has gone from 4½? to 5? per gal., linseed oil from less than 9½? to 10? per lb., wool from 92? to $1.01 per lb. In London, where one can speculate in dried flies and ant eggs, an all-time high was set for copra. The New York Journal of Commerce reported a rise in balsam copaiba, a tight market in gum benzoin and "no sign of any relief in the shortage of eucalyptus oil...