Word: shale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coal was in his blood. His people were Staffordshire coal miners for generations and giving him a scientific education was their idea of lifting him above his ancestral trade without removing him from it. Professor Cadman's first connection with oil was while doing research for the Scotch shale industry. The British Colonial office sent him to Rumania and Burma on oil expeditions. The War made him Chairman of the Inter-Allied Petroleum Council and technical adviser in the development of a counter terror to poison gas. The War too gave him his knighthood and his first personal contact...
...beds deep within Carbon Mountain have ignited, generating gas which is bursting the mountain apart and forming cavities into which the mountain collapses. For evidence the burning-coal theorists point to a gas-like hissing which often accompanies a rock slide, to the sulfurous smell, and to pieces of shale charred red and yellow. On the other hand. Dr. S. Boyd Calkins, science teacher in the Durango high school, points to the earthy effusions which last week oozed from Carbon's cracks. These outpourings, he reasons, rose from, depths of 2,000 or more feet, definitely indicating seismic churnings...
Synthetic Stone from compressed and steamed pulverized shale, slate, granite, marble, limestone-reported by Purdue's Randolph Norris Shreve, Harry Creighton Peffer, Richard L. Harrison...
...Walsh, legislative specialist on Oil and on Power, returned to Washington last fortnight from a private business trip to New York to mix a fresh brew of political news. Just before the Senate recessed for the holidays he introduced a resolution providing for a Senate investigation of the Colorado shale-oil charges leveled against the Department of the Interior by Ralph S. Kelley (TIME, Oct. 6 et seq.}. Last week he swiveled his aim back to Power when the new Federal Power Commission, as its first executive act, dismissed two of its prime employes...
...Nevertheless, he last week disallowed the claim of Federal Shale Oil Co. to lands in Colorado, asserting the right of the Department to challenge validity of claims on the ground of assessment delinquency...