Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oklahoma's taste in governors has run to flamboyant showmen like sulphurous old "Alfalfa Bill" Murray or gregarious millionaires like outgoing Governor Bob Kerr. With the inauguration last week of Roy Turner, a well-heeled oil-&-cattleman, Oklahoma got a little of both...
Washout. For President Miguel Aleman, the troubles posed a political dilemma. Whatever his lack of regard for the oldtime bosses, he still needed their support. Besides, he could not let the rightists make political hay. Firmness in the oil workers' strike (TIME, Dec. 30) had paid off; firmness in a political crisis like that at Oaxaca might pay dividends also...
...Innocents* and the Latin American equivalent of April Fool's Day. At the San Tome camp of the Mene Grande Oil Co., the plane had just landed from Caracas. Its most important cargo: $287,000 in crisp bills to pay drillers and riggers. It brought also a surprise. When company paymasters opened the moneybag, they found only bricks and old newspapers. A Day of the Innocents' joke, was their first thought. But it was no joke; somewhere between Caracas and San Tome the payroll pouch had been stolen...
...Last Drop. At first Dr. ZoBell did not think much of his find, but oilmen heard about it and jumped at it eagerly. Their interest was based on a sad and simple fact: no known extraction process gets all the oil out of an oilfield. Much of it stays below ground, sticking to rock particles. But if the bacterial process works, this oil can be got at, and exhausted oil pools will yield a valuable "second crop...
...years, the Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association has been experimenting (more or less in secret) with the practical application of Dr. ZoBell's discovery. At present many Pennsylvania oilmen glean their underground fields by forcing water through worked-out strata. They plan to introduce Dr. ZoBell's bacteria along with the water. The bacteria should hunt out and bring to the surface the last drops of oil...