Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experts", pseudo-geologists or fakirs. All university men know that it is not sufficient to call one's self a "geologist" to be one; a pains-taking study is necessary of all the fundamental branches of geology, chemistry, physics and engineering before one can even appreciate the rudiments of petroleum geology. For instance, in the case of the writer, four years in a Technical School and seven years in Government employ were necessary before he found himself proficient enough to open his office as a Consulting Petroleum Geologist, and although thirteeen years have elapsed since that stop was taken...
...columns of a certain reputable trade journal contain professional cards of over fifty individuals and firms who specialize in oil geology; and the number has lately been increasing. Contrast these circumstances with the fact that the United States Geological Survey has calculated that over forty percent of the petroleum of the United States has already been taken from the ground and the great majority of our known oil fields have been discovered. It will be seen, therefore, that tremendous competition must exist for the man who takes up oil geology with the expectation of making a living by it alone...
...Frederick G. Clapp of New York City, an authority on Petroleum Geology will give a series of twelve lectures on that subject at Forcrott House daily at 8 A. M. beginning tomorrow morning...
Since 1898 the country has remained financially solvent because a commission of delegates from the three Powers has had charge of the external debt; it handled the revenues from salt, petroleum and other monopolies, and from several duties. This financial support will go with Constantine's arrival, and without the occurrence of a miracle the King will never succeed in keeping Greece from bankruptcy--a task that has been difficult enough for three European nations...
...hero thought that 400,000 square miles would do nicely. Quicker than thought he also obtained from Mr. Lenine ten billion tons of coal, five billion tons of platinum, eight billion tons of furs--the nice woolly kind, twenty billion tons of petroleum, et cetera, et cetera...