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...PAW Administrator Ickes had little to crow about. OPA coolly brushed off his main contention-that an overall price increase is needed to boost wildcatting and thus uncover new fields. OPA pointed to figures showing that wildcatting is now at an alltime high; in all, estimated 5,000 wells will be sunk this year, a whopping 1,500 over last year's record high. As OPA sent its plan along to Stabilizer Vinson for approval, it hoped that it had taken the steam out of the drive for an overall crude-oil price increase...
...Cougar-on-the-paw average about eight feet from nose to tail tip. Cougar skins without cougar in them run longer. From now on TIME'S catamount editor has been directed to bring them back alive...
...According to PAW figures, 95% of all the United Nations' aviation gas comes from the U.S. and 65% of the U.S.'s total overseas tonnage for war is devoted to carrying oil. Another shocker-statistic: in the continental U.S. one well has been drilled for every three sq. mi. v. one in every 526 sq. mi. for the rest of the world...
Stanford, 7 June, 1902 "So there is no maw gaw to shed in the Baw Waw. The paw praw-Baws will feel saw ! The praw-Baws are an awful baw! They gained no eclaw by taking the flaw! I set no staw by them. They are rotten at the caw. So no maw from...
...Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed himself from a post-office clerkship. But though he culled some 17 volumes in the same vein for his 1931 omnibus, Snug Harbour, his best-known short story was the macabre The Monkey's Paw...