Word: conservationism
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Eight days after entering the White House, President Hoover announced a sweeping new policy for oil conservation on the public domain. Aware of petroleum overproduction, he ordered his Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, virtually to suspend the U. S. Leasing Act of 1920. Secretary Wilbur promptly executed...
The significance of the Standard move lies in the complete separation of the patent process from Standard of New Jersey and the willingness of the new company to make the process available to any corporation desiring it. The greater the number of companies subscribing for stock in the Patent Company...
When trees become crops, forest conservation will cease to be a problem. And in the February issue of Cellulose, a new trade magazine, the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson of Science Service gives the answer of the Woodman who was asked to spare-that-tree. "Sure," says Woodman, "I can...
Totally unexpected, "the best day in over a year" came to oilmen last week. Giving the day its supremacy were two items. First was the raising of crude prices by Standard of California, then by other producers of the State. Second was the upholding of the California natural gas conservation...
The industry was Oil, in which overproduction of crude has led to overproduction of gasoline. To solve this, the Federal Oil Conservation Board suggested that in Texas, Oklahoma and California, refining schedules be cut down to six days a week. Standard Oil of New Jersey with its subsidiaries was the...