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...from oil-company taxes. President Avila Camacho might well find U.S. oil know-how and oil capital useful-if only a way could be figured to save the face he must turn to his anti-gringo voters. One such face-saver would be a public admission on U.S. oilmen's part that they could have behaved more simpaticamente toward Mexico in the past, are resolved to do better in the future...
...coal and oil deposits were formed, there prospered a hard-shelled order of protozoa, the Foraminifera, which were sometimes two inches but usually less than a millimeter across. Micropaleontologists watch for these and do not overlook the fragmentary remains of such creatures as worms, starfish, sea urchins, etc. When oilmen strike a wildcat gusher, they sometimes spend from $1,000 to $2,500 for an analysis of the microfossils which characterize it, so that finding another such well will depend less on luck...
...They are "idle" because the whole tank-car fleet (150,000 cars) unquestionably has not been used to full efficiency in the past. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission hastily approved new rail rates-about 25% lower on gasoline, 27-40% lower on crude oil-which will give both oilmen and railroads a chance to prove how much more they can haul...
...national honor to all good Mexicans. Possible solutions: 1) Mexico will offer the oil companies long-term leases to operate the expropriated properties; 2) the U.S. will lend Mexico the money to buy the properties on terms the companies consider fair, i.e., U.S. taxpayers will buy off their own oilmen...
...railroads loaded 912,000 freight cars in the Aug. 30 week, a new 1941 top. This week they start the final climb to the October seasonal peak. Power output hit 3,233 million k.w.h., highest ever and 18.2% above last year. As the Eastern gas shortage grew less fearsome, oilmen boosted weekly crude production to 4,004,700 barrels, a new record. Despite disemployment in some sections, the consumer buying orgy continued. July electric range sales jumped 118%, refrigerators 37%, both to new records. Season fur sales rose...