Word: petroleum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received a letter from President Roosevelt urging enactment of a bill providing for condemnation of rights of way across ten States which would supply Middle Atlantic refineries with crude oil for finished petroleum products. Purpose of the bill: to relieve pressure on the railroads. The Atlantic Coast's congested defense areas now depend for their petroleum on tankers plying between the Gulf Coast and Middle Atlantic ports. When the ships are moved into transocean lanes, the railroads must supply the oil. Therefore, argued Mr. Roosevelt, build the pipelines...
...molecules), harder to produce fuel oil, hardest to produce lubricating oils and greases. For this reason, while Germany is moderately well off for gasoline, she is thought to be desperately short of the heavier oils. This would explain her eagerness to lay hands on every possible field of natural petroleum...
...once, 25 later). This means the diversion of about 200,000 barrels a day (enough to fill 1,000 tank cars) to the railways. Shipping costs are 1.25 mills per ton mile by tanker, 3.2 mills by pipeline, 8.3 mills by rail. Pipelines cannot move all types of petroleum products, could not carry all the extra load anyway. Oilmen began worrying at once about moving next winter's fuel-oil requirements in the East...
...Industrial chemists gasped as Edward Ray Weidlein, chemical priorities director for OPM, observed: "The entire military activities of Germany and Italy, plus the industrial and other activities of these countries and of the occupied areas of Western Europe, are being carried on with an amount of petroleum plus synthetic products which is only about 5% of our present domestic production...
...frequent concentrators who was lured into the field by Mather's Geology 1 lectures, you'll find especially interesting his discourses on glacial geology, 5, and on petroleum, 17. They are delightful, if only because Mather is Mather...