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Fossil remains of the world's oldest land plant, a primitive shoot of the Cambrian era, 500,000,000 years age, have been found by a local paleobotanist in black oil shale from Sweden...
...estimated at ten to twelve billion barrels, and modern methods of appraisal render unexpected "finds" of considerable extent unlikely. At the present rate of consumption reserves are enough for twelve or 14 years, but production falls off sharply before literal exhaustion is in sight. Oil can be obtained from shale and coal; the necessary equipment, however, would cost billions of dollars. "Alcohol," said Dr. Brooks, "as a motor fuel is a question of politics and farm subsidies, not of economics," cannot compete with gasoline until the price of gasoline rises fivefold. Therefore he could only conclude that swollen prices...
...impersonated by big-eyed, golden-haired Actress Helen Chandler, Angela Shale is a young woman who looks like an angel out of Heaven, but generally acts like the most mischievous little shrew who ever sat on a ducking stool. By tears, coquetry, wheedling, imprecations, she is bound and determined to make her husband sell his electrical invention to the power trust, accept a steady job and settle down in an all-electric house in the suburbs. Alternately dazzled by his wife's charm and enraged by her breezy feminine sophistry, Dick Shale (Bramwell Fletcher) is equally determined to exploit...
...Texas Co., Asiatic Petroleum Co. (Anglo-Dutch Shell group), every oil can in future to bear the stamp of the Japanese-controlled monopoly; 2) permit foreign firms to sell petroleum to the Monopoly only after it has purchased the entire produce of the South Manchuria Railway's shale oil plant and the new Dairen refinery...
...goodwill built up by foreign firms with their brightly colored oil cans which Manchukuans use for everything from cooking utensils to tin plates for their roofs and linings for their coffins. It will also mean that Manchukuans will have to pay the extravagant cost of working Japan's shale oil refineries, always run hitherto at a loss but kept going for strategic reasons...