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...around me," said a Southern oil-lease broker a while back, "I'll produce oil in Georgia." Up to last week, Georgia was not yet an oil state-but it had begun to look as if the Lord had His arm around the whole southeastern U.S. Conservative oilmen are still talking conservatively, but even they admit that the Southeast is now enjoying the biggest oil-land boom since the 1930s...
...British Government's oilmen and the British oil industry have long been almost indistinguishable. But the Roosevelt Administration still behaves as if it were a sign of original sin for the U.S. Government and U.S. oil companies to sit down together...
...reached Oklahoma City, 35 miles north. In front of the 33-story First National Bank building, Bill Brannan spread it as he hawked his papers to the leasehounds who make their fairweather "offices" around his newsstand. Atop the building, in the swank Beacon Club, the talk of better heeled oilmen was the same: "Carter brings in new pool . . . she's bubbling out of the hole right now." For the Cottingham mud had tested 50% good crude, 50% mud and drilling water-no salt. By week's end the new well flowed at the rate...
This sentence, a well-worn cliche to economists and oilmen, is still news to millions of Americans who think first of their thousands of airplanes, their Army and Navy, their two great oceans, their enormous productive capacity. Harry Truman, Senator from Missouri, used the words as the basic premise of a report made by his investigating committee this week, in an attempt to get all Americans to realize that, without oil, the U.S. would be militarily and diplomatically helpless...
...Rubber Boss Dewey calmly points to the glowing alcohol-production record to prove that the program was right, the oilmen wrong. The hard fact is that the much simpler alcohol process ran into fewer production kinks than those which knotted up petroleum butadiene production, split as it is among 13 companies, tinkering with five different processes. What worked like a dream in the laboratory is turning out to have some nightmarish bursts in big-scale production. Best example: the Houdry Process, widely publicized a year and a half ago, has yet to get into satisfactory production...