Word: pratt
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...guard has been conspicously absent in the 880 and Max Pincus, and Henry Mason, both of this spring's Freshman team, have been more than holding their own. Another threat in his event is Freshman star Herby Pratt. In the mile, a newcomer to the College and the squad, Joe McAndrews, has so far been a steady first, but his time lingers around the 5-minute mark in the mile, and may not stand up in the intercollegiate circuit...
Freshman Herby Pratt is running in the mile race at Brookline. Pratt ran the half-mile in the Dedham meet last week, but failed to place. Bob Kent and Tim Coggeshall will run in the three-mile event. Both of these men were Varsity cross country and two-mile stars last year...
...Geologist Pratt is specific and scientific. Petroleum was formed (perhaps a billion years ago) from animal and plant remains in the shallow-water marine oozes when their sands and mud solidified into rock. Rocks of this kind comprise 40% of the earth's land surface. Almost all of them should contain oil. With only 15% of the world's potential oil-yielding rock, the U.S. has 54% of the world's proved reserves. The only reason for this, says Geologist Pratt, is U.S. know-how. If & when Asia, Africa, South America acquire the same nose...
...Alaska, Chile, Japan, the South Sea Islands. Most promising for the U.S. is the Williston Basin, spreading over parts of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta. But so abundant is oil nearly everywhere that its discovery is primarily a matter of the "social state of mind." Says Oilman Pratt: "Where oil really is, then, in the final analysis, is in our own heads...
Even Optimist Pratt foresees the time when the U.S. reserves of 19 billion barrels will fail. They will not last more than 20 years without new discoveries. Therefore he urges a "truly Good Neighbor Policy" with Latin America since great imports of oil may one day flow to the U.S. from tremendous undiscovered pools in South and Central America...